NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2475MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (200W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +22%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 AD103

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GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Mar 2024

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

82

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

10496

184

TMUs

328

64

ROPs

112

184

Tensor Cores

328

46

RT Cores

82

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA102

AD103-175-K1-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

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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