GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs Radeon RX 7700 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking39not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation71.32no data
Power efficiency16.34no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 32AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 August 2023 (1 year ago)20 August 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 $599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores34565888
Core clock speed1435 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speed2544 MHz2475 MHz
Number of transistors28,100 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)245 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate549.5455.4
Floating-point processing power35.17 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs216184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Cores5446

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 4.0 x16
Length267 mm240 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 16-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/s480.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2023 20 August 2024
Power consumption (TDP) 245 Watt 200 Watt

RTX 4070 GDDR6 has an age advantage of 11 months, and 22.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 7700 XT and GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.


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