NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 154% (2475MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +1084%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

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Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

7168

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

96

80

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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