AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 105% (2475MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +490%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3678

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +385%

17853

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2024

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

211.2GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

AD104

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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