NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +1555%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +1261%

17859

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

5888

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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