NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 168% (2475MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +1439%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 40

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

5888

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-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

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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