GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 4070

CORE STATE AD104

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2475 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ada Lovelace

nm

PROCESS 5 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2023

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

168,006

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

3,854

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

157,352

passmark_directx_10

N/A

139

passmark_directx_11

N/A

244

passmark_directx_12

N/A

103

passmark_directx_9

N/A

320

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,164

passmark_g3d

N/A

26,927

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,720

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

RTX 4070

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

5,888 +187.5%

Shaders

2,048

5,888 +187.5%

TMUs

128

184 +43.8%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

32

—

SM Count

—

46

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1920 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2475 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1313 MHz 21 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

12,288 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

384 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

36 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

158.4 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

455.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

29.15 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

46

Tensor Cores

—

184

Power

TDP

250 W

200 W

TDP (W)

250

200 -20.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

550 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Ada Lovelace

GPU Name

Tahiti

AD104

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 40

Process Size

28 nm

5 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

35,800 million

Die Size

352 mm²

294 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

121.8M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

8.9

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

240 mm 9.4 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

110 mm 4.3 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

599 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 30

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 50

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