NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (2175MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation +31%

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Aug 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2175 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

160bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

6144

184

TMUs

192

96

ROPs

80

184

Tensor Cores

192

46

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

174.0 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

417.6 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.73 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

26.73 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD104

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

130W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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