NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX 2000 Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (2130MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (70W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +69%

20.31 TFLOPS

RTX 2000 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Feb 2024

Release Date

Sep 2020

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1620 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2130 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

5888

88

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

88

Tensor Cores

184

22

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

12 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

102.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

187.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

12.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

12.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

187.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA104

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GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

70W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

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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