ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR
vs
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR (Ampere) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Ellesmere) and has 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 211 GB/s.

GPU

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR has the GA104-302-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ampere architecture.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is based on the graphics chip Polaris 10 PRO, which comes from the Ellesmere architecture.
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR GPU GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR Based on AMD Radeon RX 470
GA104-302-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 10 PRO
Ampere Architecture Ellesmere
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
5888 Shader 2048
96 Render Output Units 32
184 Texture Units 128
46 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is 6.6 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.650 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.650 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.6 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 211 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 0.926 GHz
1.755 GHz Boost Clock 1.206 GHz
1.73 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 220 W.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 120 W.

220 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 120 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_0
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 5 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

310 mm Length 232 mm
147 mm Height 116 mm
88 mm Width 40 mm
5 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition LHR has been manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers since Q4/2021.

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 470 WINDFORCE 4G came on the market in Q3/2016 and will have a structure width of 14 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no GV-RX470WF2-4GD
Q4/2021 Release date Q3/2016
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 179 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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