AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs AMD Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (2520MHz vs 1750MHz)
Lower TDP (220W vs 295W)
AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 644.6GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070
+168%
36.13 TFLOPS
Radeon VII
13.44 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 9070
+201%
26876
Radeon VII
8923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 9070
+198%
13072
Radeon VII
4374
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Feb 2019
Navi IV
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1330 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
60
-
-
-
3584
Shading Units
3840
224
TMUs
240
128
ROPs
64
112
Tensor Cores
-
56
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
322.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
564.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
72.25 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
36.13 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
1129 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
295W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
Vega 20
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
7 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
