NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA 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 504.2GB/s)
10496 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+183%
82.58 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070
29.15 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
+103%
36328
GeForce RTX 4070
17887
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4090
+146%
19460
GeForce RTX 4070
7907
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 4090
+82%
10074
GeForce RTX 4070
5508
Blender
GeForce RTX 4090
+116%
12586
GeForce RTX 4070
5818
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4090
+99%
1274
GeForce RTX 4070
640
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+125%
185
GeForce RTX 4070
82
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+75%
280
GeForce RTX 4070
160
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+18%
304
GeForce RTX 4070
256
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+74%
94
GeForce RTX 4070
54
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+98%
185
GeForce RTX 4070
93
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+50%
195
GeForce RTX 4070
130
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+89%
186
GeForce RTX 4070
98
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+18%
203
GeForce RTX 4070
172
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+6%
213
GeForce RTX 4070
200
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+25%
165
GeForce RTX 4070
132
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+28%
185
GeForce RTX 4070
144
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
186
GeForce RTX 4070
+2%
190
Horizon Forbidden West 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
+57%
159
GeForce RTX 4070
101
Horizon Forbidden West 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
+73%
135
GeForce RTX 4070
78
Horizon Forbidden West 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
+87%
92
GeForce RTX 4070
49
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Apr 2023
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
1313 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6X
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
504.2GB/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
AD104-250-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
295 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
6.7
