NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1725MHz vs 1620MHz)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +172%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +53%

13637

GeForce RTX 2070

8863

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +43%

53

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +39%

95

GeForce RTX 2070

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +46%

144

GeForce RTX 2070

98

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +43%

46

GeForce RTX 2070

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +51%

56

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +49%

82

GeForce RTX 2070

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +50%

81

GeForce RTX 2070

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +46%

141

GeForce RTX 2070

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +46%

188

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070

69

GeForce RTX 2070 +24%

86

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +16%

105

GeForce RTX 2070

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

159

GeForce RTX 2070 +11%

178

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2304

184

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

288

46

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU106

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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