AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (2475MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +309%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4757

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 +183%

13502

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Mar 2024

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

2304

Shading Units

5888

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

AD103

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

AD103-175-K1-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

379 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

6.7

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