NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2021
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 30
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1575 MHz
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Boost Clock
1770 MHz
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Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
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Shading Units
6144
2048
TMUs
192
128
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
192
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RT Cores
48
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
169.9 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
339.8 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
21.75 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
21.75 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
339.8 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA104-400-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
290W
250W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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
8.6
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Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
14,872
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
7,416
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3DMark Speed Way
3,761
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.