NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Aug 2012
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
735 MHz
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Boost Clock
1230 MHz
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Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
384bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
—
Shading Units
4608
2048
TMUs
144
128
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
144
—
RT Cores
36
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
32 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
59.04 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
177.1 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
11.34 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
11.34 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
177.1 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD106
New Zealand
GPU Variant
GN21-X6
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Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
22.9 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
188 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
35W
500W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
3x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
900 W
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
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Shader Model
6.8
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.