AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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Radeon RX 7700 XT compared with GeForce RTX 4070

	AMDRadeon RX 7700 XT	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 4070
Overview
Released
Released	September 2023	April 2023
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA 3	Ada Lovelace
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,456	5,888
Boost clock
Boost clock	2,544 MHz (better)	2,475 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	54 compute units, 96 ROPs; game clock 2171 MHz; 28.1 billion transistors	AD104 GPU; 46 SMs. NVIDIA reference specifications; photo illustrates an ASUS DUAL partner cooler without establishing its memory type or factory overclock.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process; 35.8 billion transistors; 294.5 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	54 second-generation Ray Accelerators	46 third-generation RT Cores; 67 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	108 AI Accelerators; 70.3 TOPS INT8	184 fourth-generation Tensor Cores; 466 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	AMD FSR, Radeon Super Resolution	DLSS 3.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	–	1.92 GHz; stock PNY and Gainward cards confirm 2,475 MHz boost, while NVIDIA rounds it to 2.48 GHz
Cache
Cache	48 MB AMD Infinity Cache (second generation)	36 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	12 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6X or 12 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	192-bit	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	432 GB/s	504 GB/s or 480 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	GDDR6 at up to 18 Gbps; AMD quotes up to 1995 GB/s effective bandwidth with Infinity Cache	GDDR6X at 21 Gbps and 504 GB/s (stock PNY); later GDDR6 at 20 Gbps and 480 GB/s (stock Gainward). Both have 12 GB on a 192-bit bus
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	245 W	200 W (better)
Interface
Interface	–	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	DisplayPort 2.1, HDMI 2.1	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1a; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	–	4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC, HDR
Power connector
Power connector	2 × 8-pin	1 × 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 2 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box; some partner cards use 1 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	700 W	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	2.5-slot (reference card)	2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	267 mm long, 2.5-slot (reference card)	244 × 112 mm, 2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode	1 × eighth-generation NVENC, 1 × fifth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode