NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Aug 2024
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 40
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1920 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
153.6GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
46
-
Shading Units
5888
1280
TMUs
184
80
ROPs
64
32
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
36 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
AD104
Neptune
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
100W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
-

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.9
-
Shader Model
6.8
5.1