Radeon RX 9070 vs Arctic Sound 2T

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated36
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data62.30
Power efficiencyno data20.35
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)RDNA 4.0 (2025)
GPU code nameArctic SoundNavi 48
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date2021 (4 years ago)6 March 2025 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$549

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7680 ×23584
Core clock speed900 MHz1330 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million53,900 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate216.0 ×2564.5
Floating-point processing power13.82 TFLOPS ×236.13 TFLOPS
ROPs120 ×2128
TMUs240 ×2224
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB ×216 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit ×2256 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2518 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.23 TB/s ×2644.6 GB/s
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a
HDMI-+

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.2
VulkanN/A1.3
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 220 Watt

RX 9070 has a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 127.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arctic Sound 2T and Radeon RX 9070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arctic Sound 2T is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 9070 is a desktop one.

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