GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 7

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking531not rated
Place by popularity12not in top-100
Power efficiency34.97no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeAD106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores4484608
Core clock speedno data735 MHz
Boost clock speed1800 MHz1230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data177.1
Floating-point processing powerno data11.34 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data224.0 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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 35 Watt

RX Vega 7 has 133.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 7 and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
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