NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 250W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2512MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
4224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5070
+377%
30.87 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
GeForce RTX 5070
+270%
22544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
GeForce RTX 5070
+281%
10789
Blender
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
GeForce RTX 5070
+846%
6218
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
2325 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
2512 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
48
1920
Shading Units
6144
120
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GB205
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
31.1 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
263 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
6.1
CUDA
10.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
