AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 68% (2475MHz vs 1471MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 210W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 56
10.54 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+176%
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Aug 2024
Vega
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1156 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1471 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
2048bit
Memory Bus
192bit
409.6GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
46
3584
Shading Units
5888
224
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
94.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
329.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
21.09 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
10.54 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
659.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
AD104
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
