NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +735%

20.31 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

5888

Shading Units

1280

184

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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