NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2022
Jan 2013
Generation
GeForce 30
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
915 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1375 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
264.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
46
-
Shading Units
5888
2048
TMUs
184
128
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
135.4 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
259.4 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
16.60 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
16.60 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
259.4 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
Tahiti
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
-
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)

Board Design

TDP
220W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.6
5.1