NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 220W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

-

5888

Shading Units

-

184

TMUs

24

96

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

108W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G70

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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