NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2475MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (200W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3090
+22%
35.58 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1219 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
936.2GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
82
SM Count
46
10496
Shading Units
5888
328
TMUs
184
112
ROPs
64
328
Tensor Cores
184
82
RT Cores
46
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
189.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
556.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
35.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
35.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
556.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
200W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
AD104
GA102-300-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
628 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
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
