NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +1296%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

1440

184

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Cypress

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

40 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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