GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
5440 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+1765%
20310
GeForce GTX 470
1089
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
14
5888
Shading Units
448
184
TMUs
56
96
ROPs
40
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
640 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
215W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GF100
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
Ampere
Architecture
Fermi
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
40 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
2.0
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
