AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 12 years late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +669%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2024

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

2048

Shading Units

5888

128

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

200W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

AD104

-

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-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

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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