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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1695MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
8576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3090 +450%
35.58 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
GeForce RTX 3090 +227%
19893
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
GeForce RTX 3090 +263%
10258

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
1395 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz

Memory

8GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
15
SM Count
82
1920
Shading Units
10496
120
TMUs
328
64
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
328
-
RT Cores
82
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W
TDP
350W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 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
GA102
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
628 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
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