NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 95% (2475MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +399%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +329%

17861

Radeon RX 480

4163

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 +1511%

6026

Radeon RX 480

374

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +382%

82

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +357%

160

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +412%

256

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +300%

144

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +79%

190

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 4070

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Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

5888

Shading Units

2304

184

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

36 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

5 nm

Process Size

14 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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