NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1725MHz vs 1683MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +214%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +125%

13673

GeForce GTX 1070

6067

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +103%

53

GeForce GTX 1070

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +90%

95

GeForce GTX 1070

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +87%

144

GeForce GTX 1070

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +88%

81

GeForce GTX 1070

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +78%

141

GeForce GTX 1070

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +88%

188

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +41%

68

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +25%

105

GeForce GTX 1070

84

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +7%

159

GeForce GTX 1070

148

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

15

5888

Shading Units

1920

184

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP104

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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