NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1725MHz vs 1683MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
3968 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070
+214%
20.31 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
GeForce RTX 3070
+124%
13641
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
GeForce RTX 3070
+139%
6762
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Sep 2020
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1725 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
46
1920
Shading Units
5888
120
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.6 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
317.4 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
20.31 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.31 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
317.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
220W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA104
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
