NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 285W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti +958%

40.09 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 40

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

-

2610 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

7680

Shading Units

2048

240

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

208.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

626.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

40.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

40.09 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

626.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

285W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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