NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1725MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +369%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

5888

Shading Units

1792

184

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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