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Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3070

Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce RTX 3070: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

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FPS Winner

GeForce RTX 3070

8 GB GDDR6 | 256-bit

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
Palit GeForce RTX 3070 GamingPro 8GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing LHR Graphics Card, 5888 Core, 1500MHz GPU, 1725 Boost, 3 x DisplayPort, HDMI, TurboFan 3.0

Buy for £752.36 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 536 minutes ago

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FPS Winner

GeForce RTX 3070

8 GB GDDR6 | 256-bit

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
Palit GeForce RTX 3070 GamingPro 8GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing LHR Graphics Card, 5888 Core, 1500MHz GPU, 1725 Boost, 3 x DisplayPort, HDMI, TurboFan 3.0

Buy for £752.36 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 536 minutes ago

Key Differences

In short — GeForce RTX 3070 outperforms Radeon HD 8970M on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both GPUs to compare value. The better performing GeForce RTX 3070 is 2667 days newer than Radeon HD 8970M.

Advantages of Radeon HD 8970M

  • Consumes up to 55% less energy than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 100 vs 220 Watts

Advantages of GeForce RTX 3070

  • Performs up to 28% better in Counter-Strike 2 than Radeon HD 8970M - 452 vs 352 FPS
  • Up to 100% more VRAM memory than AMD Radeon HD 8970M - 8 vs 4 GB
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This is a free version of Counter-Strike 2.
Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike 2

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013


FPS

352

78%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


FPS

452

100%

Value, £/FPS

£1.66/FPS

100%

Price, £

£752.36

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Palit GeForce RTX 3070 GamingPro 8GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing LHR Graphics Card, 5888 Core, 1500MHz GPU, 1725 Boost, 3 x DisplayPort, HDMI, TurboFan 3.0

Buy for £752.36 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 536 minutes ago

Trending Games

With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020

Theoretical Performance

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo
Radeon HD 8970M

Mobile • May 14th, 2013


Pixel Fillrate

28.8 GPixel/s

17%

Texel Fillrate

72 GTexel/s

23%

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo
GeForce RTX 3070

Desktop • Sep 1st, 2020


Pixel Fillrate

165.6 GPixel/s

100%

Texel Fillrate

317.4 GTexel/s

100%

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Logo

Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Logo

GeForce RTX 3070

May 14th, 2013Release Date
Sep 1st, 2020
Solar SystemGenerationGeForce 30
Not AvailableMSRP$499
NoneOutputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
NonePower Connectors1x 12-pin
Mobile
Segment
Desktop
4 GBMemory
8 GB
GDDR5TypeGDDR6
256-bitBus256-bit
153.6 GB/sBandwidth
448 GB/s
850 MHzBase Clock Speed
1500 MHz
900 MHzBoost Clock Speed
1725 MHz
1200 MHzMemory Clock Speed
1750 MHz

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With selected game settings

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