NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 22 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 7.2x more core clock speed: 2325 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 185500x more texture fill rate: 482.3 GTexel/s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 150 nm
  • 96x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 128 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 28 Gbps effective vs 620 MHz
  • 8.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1286 vs 149
  • 534.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28843 vs 54
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Mar 2025 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed 2325 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 482.3 GTexel/s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 28 Gbps effective vs 620 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1286 vs 149
PassMark - G3D Mark 28843 vs 54

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1286
149
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28843
54
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark 1286 149
PassMark - G3D Mark 28843 54
Geekbench - OpenCL 186565
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5077

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 ATI Radeon 9700 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Rage 8
Code name GB205 R300
Launch date 4 Mar 2025 1 July 2002
Place in performance rating 20 1135
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2512 MHz
Core clock speed 2325 MHz 325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 6144
Pixel fill rate 201.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 482.3 GTexel/s 2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt
Transistor count 31100 million 110 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 245 mm, 9.6 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin Floppy
Width 115 mm, 4.5 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 9.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0
Shader Model 6.8
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 672.0 GB/s 19.84 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 28 Gbps effective 620 MHz
Memory type GDDR7 DDR