NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2475MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +351%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

6.463 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 +840%

6026

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

641

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 +453%

642

GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

116

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Dec 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

1920

184

TMUs

120

64

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GP104

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

200W

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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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