NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (2475MHz vs 1860MHz)
Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+37%
40 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4070
17887
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+22%
21832
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4070
7907
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+43%
11318
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4070
5508
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+7%
5903
Blender
GeForce RTX 4070
5818
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+6%
6217
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4070
640
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+1%
649
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
82
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+28%
105
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
160
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+4%
167
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+21%
256
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
210
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
54
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+29%
70
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
+6%
93
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
87
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+4%
130
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
125
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
98
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+30%
128
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
172
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+16%
201
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
200
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
200
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
132
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+6%
141
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
144
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+29%
187
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
190
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+18%
226
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
101
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+12%
114
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
78
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+19%
93
Horizon Forbidden West 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
49
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+26%
62
Graphics Card
Apr 2023
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1560 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1860 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1008GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
84
5888
Shading Units
10752
184
TMUs
336
64
ROPs
112
184
Tensor Cores
336
46
RT Cores
84
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
208.3 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
625.0 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
40.00 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.00 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
625.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
450W
550 W
Suggested PSU
850 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA102
AD104-250-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-350-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
295 mm²
Die Size
628 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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
