NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +1177%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070

6067

GeForce RTX 4090 +501%

36499

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

26

GeForce RTX 4090 +611%

185

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

50

GeForce RTX 4090 +460%

280

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

77

GeForce RTX 4090 +294%

304

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

43

GeForce RTX 4090 +332%

186

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

79

GeForce RTX 4090 +156%

203

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GeForce RTX 4090 +113%

213

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GeForce RTX 4090 +243%

165

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

84

GeForce RTX 4090 +120%

185

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

148

GeForce RTX 4090 +25%

186

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

128

1920

Shading Units

16384

120

TMUs

512

64

ROPs

176

-

Tensor Cores

512

-

RT Cores

128

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

AD102

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

609 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

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.8

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