NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT 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).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 54% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Around 60% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 1630 MHz
1150.7x more texture fill rate: 480.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Around 44% higher pipelines: 5888 vs 4096
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 14 nm
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Launch date	2023 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	5888 vs 4096
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 27% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 285 Watt
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Around 17% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 167932

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 285 Watt
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 167932

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

167932

196748

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	1125
PassMark - G3D Mark	26979
Geekbench - OpenCL	167932	196748
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	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)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 5.0
Code name	AD104	Vega 10
Launch date	2023	8 August 2017
Place in performance rating	34	35
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2610 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	14 nm
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
Pipelines	5888	4096
Pixel fill rate	167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	480.2 GTexel/s	417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	285 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	336 mm, 13.2 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	140 mm, 5.5 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	504.2 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X	HBM2