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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 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 167966
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 167966

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
167966
196748
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 1117
PassMark - G3D Mark 26979
Geekbench - OpenCL 167966 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