AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2520MHz vs 2475MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070
+23%
36.13 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070
29.15 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 9070
+50%
26876
GeForce RTX 4070
17887
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 9070
+65%
13072
GeForce RTX 4070
7907
3DMark Speed Way
Radeon RX 9070
+6%
5844
GeForce RTX 4070
5508
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Apr 2023
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1330 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
504.2GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
3584
Shading Units
5888
224
TMUs
184
128
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
184
56
RT Cores
46
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
322.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
72.25 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
36.13 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
GPU Variant
AD104-250-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
5 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
295 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
