GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2475MHz vs 1725MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
20310
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+43%
29150
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
46
5888
Shading Units
5888
184
TMUs
184
96
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
184
46
RT Cores
46
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
220W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
AD104
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
