NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2475MHz vs 1620MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +290%

29.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070

8861

GeForce RTX 4070 +101%

17856

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

37

GeForce RTX 4070 +121%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

68

GeForce RTX 4070 +135%

160

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

98

GeForce RTX 4070 +161%

256

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

32

GeForce RTX 4070 +68%

54

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

37

GeForce RTX 4070 +151%

93

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

55

GeForce RTX 4070 +136%

130

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

54

GeForce RTX 4070 +81%

98

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

96

GeForce RTX 4070 +79%

172

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GeForce RTX 4070 +56%

200

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

86

GeForce RTX 4070 +53%

132

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

90

GeForce RTX 4070 +60%

144

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

178

GeForce RTX 4070 +6%

190

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Apr 2023

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

46

2304

Shading Units

5888

144

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

64

288

Tensor Cores

184

36

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

AD104

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

5 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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