GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs Riva 128

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated9
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.26
Power efficiencyno data24.60
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV3AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 April 1997 (27 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$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 coresno data7168
Core clock speed100 MHz1980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors4 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology350 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)4 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate0.1554.4
Floating-point processing powerno data35.48 TFLOPS
ROPs180
TMUs1224
Tensor Coresno data224
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).

InterfaceAGP 2xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSDRGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount4 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed100 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.6 GB/s504.2 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 VGA, 1x DB13W31x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 1997 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 4 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 350 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 4 Watt 220 Watt

Riva 128 has 5400% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 26 years, a 307100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva 128 and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.


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