NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2520MHz vs 2475MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 504.2GB/s)
10496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4090
+183%
82.58 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4070
17887
GeForce RTX 4090
+103%
36328
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4070
7907
GeForce RTX 4090
+146%
19460
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4070
5508
GeForce RTX 4090
+82%
10074
Blender
GeForce RTX 4070
5818
GeForce RTX 4090
+116%
12586
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4070
640
GeForce RTX 4090
+99%
1274
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
82
GeForce RTX 4090
+125%
185
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
160
GeForce RTX 4090
+75%
280
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
256
GeForce RTX 4090
+18%
304
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
54
GeForce RTX 4090
+74%
94
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
93
GeForce RTX 4090
+98%
185
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
130
GeForce RTX 4090
+50%
195
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
98
GeForce RTX 4090
+89%
186
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
172
GeForce RTX 4090
+18%
203
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
200
GeForce RTX 4090
+6%
213
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
132
GeForce RTX 4090
+25%
165
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
144
GeForce RTX 4090
+28%
185
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
+2%
190
GeForce RTX 4090
186
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
GeForce RTX 4070
101
GeForce RTX 4090
+57%
159
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
GeForce RTX 4070
78
GeForce RTX 4090
+73%
135
Horizon Forbidden West 2160p
GeForce RTX 4070
49
GeForce RTX 4090
+87%
92
Graphics Card
Apr 2023
Release Date
Sep 2022
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
2235 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
504.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1.01TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
128
5888
Shading Units
16384
184
TMUs
512
64
ROPs
176
184
Tensor Cores
512
46
RT Cores
128
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
72 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
443.5 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1290 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
82.58 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
82.58 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1290 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
AD102
AD104-250-A1
GPU Variant
AD102-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
295 mm²
Die Size
609 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
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
