AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (420.2GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB +853%

36.13 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2355 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

160bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

420.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

2048

Shading Units

7168

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

564.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

36.13 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.13 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

564.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

AD104-275-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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