AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

  • Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 549.5 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 245 Watt vs 285 Watt
  • Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Texture fill rate 549.5 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 245 Watt vs 285 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 36% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1700 MHz
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 2544 MHz
  • Around 70% higher pipelines: 5888 vs 3456
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1125 vs 1091
  • Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26979 vs 22410
  • Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 167932 vs 126402
  • Around 5% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 17857 vs 16990
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 25 Aug 2023
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Boost clock speed 2610 MHz vs 2544 MHz
Pipelines 5888 vs 3456
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 5 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1125 vs 1091
PassMark - G3D Mark 26979 vs 22410
Geekbench - OpenCL 167932 vs 126402
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 17857 vs 16990

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1091
1125
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22410
26979
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
126402
167932
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
16990
17857
Name AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
PassMark - G2D Mark 1091 1125
PassMark - G3D Mark 22410 26979
Geekbench - OpenCL 126402 167932
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 16990 17857
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 417.133
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 55.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 245.639
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2459.317

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
Code name Navi 32 AD104
Launch date 25 Aug 2023 2023
Place in performance rating 36 34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2544 MHz 2610 MHz
Compute units 54
Core clock speed 1700 MHz 2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 4 nm
Pipelines 3456 5888
Pixel fill rate 244.2 GPixel/s 167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 549.5 GTexel/s 480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 245 Watt 285 Watt
Transistor count 28100 million 35800 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 30.74 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 50 mm, 2 inches 61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 135 mm, 5.3 inches 140 mm, 5.5 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 432.0 GB/s 504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X