AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Comparison

The head-to-head data between the AMD Radeon VII and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is one-sided: the RTX 4070 Ti wins every shared benchmark, by margins ranging from 48 to 57 percent. The Radeon VII counters with raw memory bandwidth and capacity, a 16 GB HBM2 buffer feeding a 4096-bit bus at 1.02 TB/s, which dwarfs the 4070 Ti's 504.2 GB/s across a 192-bit interface. This is a contest between a bandwidth-first compute card from the Vega era and a modern efficiency-focused Ada Lovelace gaming GPU, and the recorded results make clear which philosophy translates into benchmark performance.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

All three shared tests in the database favor the RTX 4070 Ti, and none of them are close.

In 3DMark Steel Nomad (DirectX 12), the RTX 4070 Ti scores 5024 against the Radeon VII's 2304, a 54.1 percent gap. Steel Nomad is a demanding modern rasterization workload, and this result captures the generational distance between the two architectures: the Ada Lovelace card delivers more than double the score of the Vega 20 part.

Geekbench OpenCL shows the narrowest result of the three, yet the 4070 Ti still lands 48 percent ahead, 176953 versus 91947. OpenCL is traditionally a workload where AMD's compute-oriented GCN designs held their own, so even this relative high point for the Radeon VII ends in a landslide.

Geekbench Vulkan is the biggest blowout: 213808 for the RTX 4070 Ti versus 91788 for the Radeon VII, a 57.1 percent delta. Vulkan 1.4 support on the 4070 Ti, against Vulkan 1.3 on the Radeon VII, reinforces how much the API landscape has moved since the AMD card's release.

The database records zero wins for the Radeon VII across the shared test suite, and the winsB count of 3 confirms the sweep.

Architecture Differences

These two GPUs come from different technological worlds. The Radeon VII is built on the Vega 20 chip using GCN 5.1 architecture on TSMC's 7 nm process, packing 13,230 million transistors into a 331 mm² die, for a density of 40.0M per mm². The RTX 4070 Ti uses the AD104 chip on Ada Lovelace architecture, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm node, with 35,800 million transistors in a smaller 294 mm² die and a dramatically higher density of 121.8M per mm². That is roughly triple the transistor density, and it shows up everywhere in the results.

Compute resources differ sharply. The 4070 Ti fields 7680 shading units, double the Radeon VII's 3840. Both cards have 240 TMUs, but the 4070 Ti holds 80 ROPs to the Radeon VII's 64, producing pixel rates of 208.8 GPixel/s versus 112.0 GPixel/s and texture rates of 626.4 GTexel/s versus 420.0 GTexel/s. Raw FP32 output is 40.09 TFLOPS for the 4070 Ti against 13.44 TFLOPS for the Radeon VII, a near-tripling that matches the 3DMark result almost exactly.

The Radeon VII's one structural advantage is memory. It carries 16 GB of HBM2 on a 4096-bit bus delivering 1.02 TB/s of bandwidth, twice the 4070 Ti's 504.2 GB/s and with 4 GB more capacity. The 4070 Ti answers with faster effective memory, 21 Gbps GDDR6X against 2 Gbps effective HBM2, but on a narrow 192-bit bus.

Clocks also diverge: the 4070 Ti runs a 2310 MHz base and 2610 MHz boost, against 1400 MHz base and 1750 MHz boost for the Radeon VII. Feature-wise, the 4070 Ti includes 60 RT cores and 240 tensor cores; the Radeon VII has neither, reflected also in API support, DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) and Vulkan 1.4 versus DirectX 12 (12_1) and Vulkan 1.3. The 4070 Ti connects over PCIe 4.0 x16, the Radeon VII over PCIe 3.0 x16.

The Verdict

For gaming and general GPU compute, the data supports only one choice: the RTX 4070 Ti. It wins every shared benchmark by 48 to 57 percent, delivers roughly triple the pixel rate and FP32 throughput, and adds hardware ray tracing and tensor cores the Radeon VII simply lacks. Anyone whose workload values raw throughput, modern API features, or ray tracing should take the 4070 Ti without hesitation.

The Radeon VII earns consideration only where bandwidth and memory capacity dominate. Twice the memory bandwidth (1.02 TB/s versus 504.2 GB/s) and a 16 GB HBM2 buffer suit it to workloads that stream large datasets, and its FP16 rate of 26.88 TFLOPS at a 2:1 ratio notably doubles its FP32 figure, whereas the 4070 Ti runs FP16 at a 1:1 ratio of 40.09 TFLOPS. Its database profile, sitting in the 90th percentile against all GPUs with rivals like the Tesla T4 and Tesla P40, suggests it is viewed more as a compute-adjacent part than a gaming card.

Power is nearly a wash: 295 W TDP for the Radeon VII, 285 W for the 4070 Ti, both with a suggested 600 W PSU. Both cards are end-of-life, launched at 699 USD for the Radeon VII and 799 USD as the 4070 Ti's launch MSRP.

Specification Differences

• Process node: Radeon VII at 7 nm, RTX 4070 Ti at 5 nm (both TSMC)
• Transistors: 13,230 million versus 35,800 million
• Die size and density: 331 mm² at 40.0M per mm² versus 294 mm² at 121.8M per mm²
• Shading units: 3840 versus 7680
• ROPs: 64 versus 80 (TMUs equal at 240)
• Clocks: 1400/1750 MHz base/boost versus 2310/2610 MHz
• FP32: 13.44 TFLOPS versus 40.09 TFLOPS
• FP16: 26.88 TFLOPS at 2:1 versus 40.09 TFLOPS at 1:1
• Memory: 16 GB HBM2, 4096-bit, 1.02 TB/s versus 12 GB GDDR6X, 192-bit, 504.2 GB/s
• Accelerators: no RT or tensor cores versus 60 RT cores and 240 tensor cores
• TDP: 295 W versus 285 W, both suggesting a 600 W PSU
• Power connectors: 2x 8-pin versus 1x 16-pin
• Bus: PCIe 3.0 x16 versus PCIe 4.0 x16
• APIs: DirectX 12 (12_1), Vulkan 1.3 versus DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4
• Display: both offer one HDMI plus three DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b versus HDMI 2.1
• Dimensions: 280 x 125 x 40 mm versus 285 x 112 x 42 mm, both dual-slot

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the shared benchmarks?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti wins all three: 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 (5024 vs 2304, 54.1 percent), Geekbench OpenCL (176953 vs 91947, 48 percent), and Geekbench Vulkan (213808 vs 91788, 57.1 percent).

Q: Does the Radeon VII have any hardware advantage?

A: Yes. It offers 1.02 TB/s of memory bandwidth on a 4096-bit HBM2 bus, double the 4070 Ti's 504.2 GB/s, plus 16 GB of capacity versus 12 GB. Its FP16 throughput also doubles its FP16-over-FP32 ratio at 2:1.

Q: Can the Radeon VII do ray tracing?

A: No. It has no RT cores and no tensor cores, and supports DirectX 12 (12_1) rather than 12 Ultimate. The 4070 Ti has 60 RT cores and 240 tensor cores.

Q: How do their database standings compare?

A: The Radeon VII sits in the 90th percentile against all GPUs with an average score of 66004, ranked near the Tesla T4 and Tesla P40. The 4070 Ti sits in the 84th percentile with an average score of 44795, near the RTX 5090 Mobile and RTX A6000.

Q: Do they need different power supplies?

A: Both specify a 600 W suggested PSU. TDP differs slightly at 295 W for the Radeon VII and 285 W for the 4070 Ti.

Q: Are both cards still in production?

A: No. Both are listed as end-of-life. The Radeon VII launched in February 2019; the RTX 4070 Ti launched in January 2023.

Where Each One Wins

RTX 4070 Ti wins:

• Modern DirectX 12 gaming, evidenced by the 54.1 percent Steel Nomad gap
• Vulkan workloads, where it leads by 57.1 percent
• OpenCL compute broadly, ahead by 48 percent
• Any ray tracing or tensor-accelerated workload, given 60 RT cores and 240 tensor cores
• Efficiency per clock, running 7680 shaders at up to 2610 MHz on a denser 5 nm node

Radeon VII wins:

• Bandwidth-bound tasks that exploit 1.02 TB/s across a 4096-bit HBM2 interface
• Workloads needing more than 12 GB of memory, with its 16 GB buffer
• Compute profiles where its 2:1 FP16 ratio doubles effective half-precision throughput relative to FP32

The split is clean. The RTX 4070 Ti is the performance choice in every measured head-to-head test; the Radeon VII is a bandwidth and capacity specialist whose strengths the current benchmark suite does not directly measure.