NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2510MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.2GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5070 +51%

30.84 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Feb 2025

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2165 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2510 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

2209 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

672.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

46

6144

Shading Units

5888

192

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

96

192

Tensor Cores

184

48

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

40 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

160.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

481.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

30.84 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

30.84 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

481.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1b 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB205

GPU Name

GA104

GB205-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.4

Vulkan

1.3

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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