NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (2520MHz vs 1620MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

14080 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (175W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1006%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +312%

36549

GeForce RTX 2070

8869

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +400%

185

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +311%

280

GeForce RTX 2070

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +210%

304

GeForce RTX 2070

98

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +193%

94

GeForce RTX 2070

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +400%

185

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +254%

195

GeForce RTX 2070

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +244%

186

GeForce RTX 2070

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +111%

203

GeForce RTX 2070

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +66%

213

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +94%

167

GeForce RTX 2070

86

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +105%

185

GeForce RTX 2070

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +4%

186

GeForce RTX 2070

178

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

2304

512

TMUs

144

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

288

128

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

TU106

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

175W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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