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Side-by-side comparison of specifications and performance

Performance Comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

1659%
1659%

AMD Radeon HD 6790

6%
6%
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is approximately 1653% faster

Technical Specifications

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Graphics ProcessorDifferent
AD104
Barts
CoresDifferent
7168
800
TMUsDifferent
224
40
ROPsDifferent
80
16
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Bus WidthDifferent
192 bit
256 bit

Graphics Processor

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
GPU NameDifferent
AD104
Barts
GPU VariantDifferent
AD104-350-A1
Barts LE(215-0798002)
ArchitectureDifferent
Ada Lovelace
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process SizeDifferent
5 nm
40 nm
TransistorsDifferent
35,800 million
1,700 million
DensityDifferent
121.8M / mm²
6.7M / mm²
Die SizeDifferent
294 mm²
255 mm²
Chip PackageDifferent
N/A
HFCBGA-1737

Graphics Card

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Release DateDifferent
Jan 8th, 2024
Apr 4th, 2011
AvailabilityDifferent
Jan 17th, 2024
N/A
GenerationDifferent
GeForce 40
Northern Islands(HD 6700)
PredecessorDifferent
GeForce 30
Evergreen
SuccessorDifferent
GeForce 50
Southern Islands
ProductionDifferent
Active
End-of-life
Launch PriceDifferent
599 USD
149 USD
Current PriceDifferent
Amazon/Newegg
N/A
Bus InterfaceDifferent
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
ReviewsDifferent
42 in our database
37 in our database

Clock Speeds

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Base ClockDifferent
1980 MHz
N/A
Boost ClockDifferent
2475 MHz
N/A
Memory ClockDifferent
1313 MHz21 Gbps effective
1050 MHz4.2 Gbps effective
GPU ClockDifferent
N/A
840 MHz

Memory

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Memory SizeDifferent
12 GB
1024 MB
Memory TypeDifferent
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory BusDifferent
192 bit
256 bit
BandwidthDifferent
504.2 GB/s
134.4 GB/s

Render Config

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Shading UnitsDifferent
7168
800
TMUsDifferent
224
40
ROPsDifferent
80
16
SM CountDifferent
56
N/A
Tensor CoresDifferent
224
N/A
RT CoresDifferent
56
N/A
L1 CacheDifferent
128 KB (per SM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 CacheDifferent
48 MB
512 KB
Compute UnitsDifferent
N/A
10

Theoretical Performance

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Pixel RateDifferent
198.0 GPixel/s
13.44 GPixel/s
Texture RateDifferent
554.4 GTexel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)Different
35.48 TFLOPS (1:1)
N/A
FP32 (float)Different
35.48 TFLOPS
1,344.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)Different
554.4 GFLOPS (1:64)
N/A

Board Design

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
LengthDifferent
267 mm10.5 inches
198 mm7.8 inches
HeightDifferent
112 mm4.4 inches
N/A
WidthDifferent
42 mm1.7 inches
N/A
TDPDifferent
220 W
150 W
Suggested PSUDifferent
550 W
450 W
OutputsDifferent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power ConnectorsDifferent
1x 16-pin
2x 6-pin
Board NumberDifferent
PG141 SKU 335
C220, 109-C22237-00

Graphics Features

FeatureNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPERAMD Radeon HD 6790
DirectXDifferent
12 Ultimate (12_2)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGLDifferent
4.6
4.4
OpenCLDifferent
3.0
1.2
VulkanDifferent
1.3
N/A
CUDADifferent
8.9
N/A
Shader ModelDifferent
6.8
5.0

Comparison Summary

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