GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
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 480.0GB/s)
10496 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+183%
82580
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29150
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
46
16384
Shading Units
5888
512
TMUs
184
176
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
184
128
RT Cores
46
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
200W
850 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 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
AD104
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
294 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
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
