GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2512MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
4224 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+377%
30870
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6463
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5070
+270%
22544
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5070
+281%
10789
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
Blender
GeForce RTX 5070
+840%
6182
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Dec 2018
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1506 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR5X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
15
6144
Shading Units
1920
192
TMUs
120
80
ROPs
64
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
GP104
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
16 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
6.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.4
