ATI Radeon 9000 vs GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	GA104	RV250
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	no data (2024 years ago)	1 July 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	no data

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 cores	6144	no data
Core clock speed	no data	250 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	18,000 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	28 Watt
Texture fill rate	325.4	1.000
Floating-point processing power	20.83 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	4
TMUs	192	4

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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	242 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	16000 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	512.0 GB/s	6.4 GB/s

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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
OpenCL	no data	N/A
Vulkan	-	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	28 Watt

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