NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 76% (2475MHz vs 1410MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +75%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

16.6 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Nov 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

915 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

5888

184

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

184

46

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA104

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

220W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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