NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs 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 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
+810%
21035
Radeon HD 7970
2310
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
+724%
9967
Radeon HD 7970
1209
Graphics Card
Jan 2024
Release Date
Jan 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
-
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
-
Compute Units
32
56
SM Count
-
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
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 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
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
8.9
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
