NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +836%

35.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER +824%

21059

Radeon HD 7970

2279

GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jan 2024

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 40

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1980 MHz

Base Clock

-

2475 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

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

7168

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

32

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

198.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

554.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

35.48 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.48 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

554.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD104-350-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

250W

550 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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