GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2520MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
14464 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+1177%
82580
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6463
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+497%
36328
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4090
+588%
19460
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
Blender
GeForce RTX 4090
+1815%
12586
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4090
+1007%
1274
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
115
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
15
16384
Shading Units
1920
512
TMUs
120
176
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
-
128
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
150W
850 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GP104
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
