AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB +474%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

6144

128

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA104

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GA104-401-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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