NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 575W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2407MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
19840 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090
+1521%
104.8 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
GeForce RTX 5090
+681%
47510
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
GeForce RTX 5090
+814%
25825
Blender
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
GeForce RTX 5090
+2174%
14945
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Jan 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
2017 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
170
1920
Shading Units
21760
120
TMUs
680
64
ROPs
176
-
Tensor Cores
680
-
RT Cores
170
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
575W
450 W
Suggested PSU
950 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
GB202
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
750 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
12.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
