NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (2475MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (200W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +34%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Oct 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

1575 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

6144

184

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

192

46

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA102

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-150-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

Board Design

200W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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