AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 285W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 10 years 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 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +958%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2023

Sea 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

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

60

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

-

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

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 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

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

6.7

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