AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 Comparison

FAQ

Q: What is the AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU?

A: The AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU is a console-class GPU from AMD, built on the Van Gogh chip with RDNA 2.0 architecture. It is manufactured on TSMC's 7 nm process, contains 2,400 million transistors on a 163 mm² die, and has a thermal design power of 15 W. It uses 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus with 102.4 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: What is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 is a GeForce 40-series card built on the AD102 chip with Ada Lovelace architecture. It is manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process, contains 76,300 million transistors on a 609 mm² die, and has a thermal design power of 285 W. It uses 16 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 256-bit bus with 672.3 GB/s bandwidth.

Q: Which GPU has more shading units?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 has 8,448 shading units, while the AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU has 512 shading units. The NVIDIA card also has 264 texture mapping units versus 32 on the AMD, and 96 ROPs versus 16.

Q: How do their FP32 compute performances compare?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 delivers 44.10 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, while the AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU delivers 1.638 TFLOPS. The NVIDIA card is roughly 27 times higher in raw FP32 throughput, though the exact ratio is not directly recorded in the database.

Q: What is the recorded benchmark score for each GPU?

A: The AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU has no benchmark entries in the database and an average benchmark score of 0. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 scores 6,269.5 in the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test, with an average benchmark score of 6,270.

Q: How do the two GPUs rank in the database percentile system?

A: The AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU sits at the 50th percentile among all GPUs, while the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 sits at the 36th percentile. The NVIDIA card's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SUPER at an identical average score of 6,270 with a 0% delta, the NVIDIA Quadro K620 at 6,282 with a -0.2% delta, the AMD FirePro W600 at 6,223 with a 0.8% delta, and the AMD Radeon R7 M350 at 6,327 with a -0.9% delta.

The Verdict

The data in this comparison presents two fundamentally different products. The AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU is a 15 W console-class processor with RDNA 2.0 architecture, designed for low-power integrated use. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 is a 285 W discrete graphics card with Ada Lovelace architecture, occupying a triple-slot form factor and requiring a 600 W suggested power supply.

For users seeking raw rendering performance, the NVIDIA card is the only option with recorded benchmark data. Its 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6,269.5 places it in a cluster with the RTX 5070 Ti SUPER at 6,270, the Quadro K620 at 6,282, and the Radeon R7 M350 at 6,327. The AMD GPU has no recorded benchmarks, so no direct performance comparison is possible from the database.

For low-power or embedded applications, the AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU's 15 W TDP and 102.4 GB/s memory bandwidth on LPDDR5 represent a radically different design point. Its 16 GB memory capacity matches the NVIDIA card, but the memory type and bus width differ substantially. The production status also differs: the AMD GPU is active, while the NVIDIA card is end-of-life with a successor in the GeForce 50 series.

The percentile data shows the AMD GPU at the 50th percentile and the NVIDIA card at the 36th percentile, though this does not translate to comparative performance because the AMD GPU lacks any benchmark scores. Users should interpret the percentile values as database placement, not as evidence of relative capability.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The database contains no direct head-to-head benchmark entries between the AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102. The wins counter shows 0 for each GPU. This means no comparative benchmark results exist in the recorded data.

The only benchmark score available is for the NVIDIA card: 6,269.5 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, with an average benchmark score of 6,270. This score places it even with the RTX 5070 Ti SUPER at 6,270 (0% delta), slightly behind the Quadro K620 at 6,282 (-0.2%), slightly ahead of the FirePro W600 at 6,223 (+0.8%), and slightly behind the Radeon R7 M350 at 6,327 (-0.9%).

The AMD GPU has no benchmark entries and an average score of 0, which indicates an absence of recorded performance data rather than a measured performance level. The database cannot establish any head-to-head performance relationship between these two products from the available measurements.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ in nearly every recorded specification field.

Process and die: The AMD chip uses TSMC's 7 nm process with a 163 mm² die size and 2,400 million transistors. The NVIDIA chip uses TSMC's 5 nm process with a 609 mm² die size and 76,300 million transistors. Transistor density is 14.7M per mm² for AMD and 125.3M per mm² for NVIDIA.

Clocks: The AMD GPU has a base clock of 1000 MHz and a boost clock of 1600 MHz. The NVIDIA GPU has a base clock of 2340 MHz and a boost clock of 2610 MHz.

Memory: Both use 16 GB, but the AMD GPU uses LPDDR5 with a 128-bit bus and 102.4 GB/s bandwidth. The NVIDIA GPU uses GDDR6X with a 256-bit bus and 672.3 GB/s bandwidth. Memory clocks are 800 MHz (6.4 Gbps effective) for AMD and 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective) for NVIDIA.

Compute units: The AMD GPU has 512 shading units, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and 8 RT cores. The NVIDIA GPU has 8,448 shading units, 264 TMUs, 96 ROPs, and 66 RT cores. The NVIDIA card also has 264 tensor cores; the AMD card lists none.

Rates: Pixel rate is 25.60 GPixel/s for AMD and 250.6 GPixel/s for NVIDIA. Texture rate is 51.20 GTexel/s for AMD and 689.0 GTexel/s for NVIDIA. FP32 is 1.638 TFLOPS for AMD and 44.10 TFLOPS for NVIDIA. FP16 is 3.277 TFLOPS (2:1) for AMD and 44.10 TFLOPS (1:1) for NVIDIA.

Power and form factor: TDP is 15 W for AMD and 285 W for NVIDIA. The NVIDIA card is triple-slot, 310 mm long, 140 mm tall, 61 mm wide, uses a 16-pin power connector, and lists a 600 W suggested PSU. The AMD GPU has no recorded dimensions, slot width, power connectors, or suggested PSU.

Interfaces and outputs: The AMD GPU lists only a USB Type-C display output and no bus interface. The NVIDIA card uses PCIe 4.0 x16 and has 1x HDMI 2.1 plus 3x DisplayPort 1.4a outputs.

APIs: Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Release and status: The AMD GPU was released on 2024-12-31, is currently Active, and has no predecessor or successor recorded. The NVIDIA card was released on 2024-06-09, is End-of-life, with GeForce 30 as predecessor and GeForce 50 as successor. The NVIDIA launch MSRP is 799 USD.

Architecture Differences

The AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU uses RDNA 2.0 architecture on the Van Gogh chip, a design from the Console GPU generation. RDNA 2.0 is AMD's second-generation RDNA microarchitecture, and the Van Gogh chip is associated with low-power, integrated console-class applications. The 7 nm TSMC process with 2,400 million transistors on a 163 mm² die yields a transistor density of 14.7M per mm².

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 uses Ada Lovelace architecture on the AD102 chip, from the GeForce 40 generation. Ada Lovelace is NVIDIA's professional discrete GPU architecture. The 5 nm TSMC process with 76,300 million transistors on a 609 mm² die yields a transistor density of 125.3M per mm², roughly 8.5 times higher density than the AMD chip.

The compute feature sets differ markedly. The NVIDIA card includes 264 tensor cores, which the AMD card does not list. RT core counts are 66 for NVIDIA versus 8 for AMD. The FP16 implementation differs: AMD uses a 2:1 ratio relative to FP32, while NVIDIA achieves 1:1 FP16 performance, delivering 44.10 TFLOPS in both FP32 and FP16.

The memory architecture also reflects different design goals. AMD's LPDDR5 with a 128-bit bus and 102.4 GB/s bandwidth suits a low-power, integrated design. NVIDIA's GDDR6X with a 256-bit bus and 672.3 GB/s bandwidth serves a high-performance discrete card with a 285 W TDP.

The API support is identical across both GPUs: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. This means both can execute the same modern graphics workloads at the API level, though the underlying hardware capabilities differ by orders of magnitude in throughput.

Where Each One Wins

The AMD Ryzen Z2 A GPU wins in power efficiency by the recorded TDP figures. At 15 W, it consumes a fraction of the NVIDIA card's 285 W. This makes it suitable for scenarios where power draw is the primary constraint. The active production status also indicates ongoing availability. Its 16 GB LPDDR5 memory provides substantial capacity for a low-power part. The 50th percentile placement in the database reflects a mid-pack ranking, though without benchmark scores, this cannot be tied to measured performance.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AD102 wins in every measured compute category from the specification data. It delivers 44.10 TFLOPS FP32 versus 1.638 TFLOPS, 44.10 TFLOPS FP16 versus 3.277 TFLOPS, 689.0 GTexel/s versus 51.20 GTexel/s, and 250.6 GPixel/s versus 25.60 GPixel/s. Memory bandwidth is 672.3 GB/s versus 102.4 GB/s. The shading unit count is 8,448 versus 512, RT cores are 66 versus 8, and tensor cores exist only on the NVIDIA card at 264.

The NVIDIA card also has a recorded benchmark result: 6,269.5 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, with an average score of 6,270. Its nearest rivals cluster tightly, with the RTX 5070 Ti SUPER at an identical score, the Quadro K620 within -0.2%, the FirePro W600 within +0.8%, and the Radeon R7 M350 within -0.9%. This indicates the NVIDIA card performs near the level of several other GPUs in the database, though the AMD GPU has no comparable data point.

The form factor difference is decisive for physical installation. The NVIDIA card requires a triple-slot space, 310 mm of length, a 16-pin power connector, and a 600 W suggested PSU. The AMD GPU has no recorded physical dimensions or power connector requirements, consistent with a low-power integrated design. The display outputs differ as well: the AMD card provides a single USB Type-C output, while the NVIDIA card offers HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a connections.

The release timeline shows the NVIDIA card launched earlier, on 2024-06-09, and has reached end-of-life status with a GeForce 50 successor. The AMD GPU launched later, on 2024-12-31, and remains active. For users requiring an actively produced part, the AMD GPU is the only choice. For users requiring discrete rendering capability, the NVIDIA card is the only choice with measured data.