NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (2512MHz vs 2475MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+5%
30.87 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29.15 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
46
6144
Shading Units
5888
192
TMUs
184
80
ROPs
64
192
Tensor Cores
184
48
RT Cores
46
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
AD104
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
263 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
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
