AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2610MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +958%

40.09 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +901%

22824

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jan 2023

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

60

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

7680

128

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

285W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 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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