NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2086 points

8113 points

288% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

51 FPS

197 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

36 FPS

96 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

32 FPS

140 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

77 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4894 points

13651 points

178% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

512.01 points

3380.77 points

560% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

38193 points

149734 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39907 points

135064 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41167 points

99979 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

40339 points

128209 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

39132 points

121057 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1379 MHz

1500 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1379 MHz

1725 MHz

25% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

448 GB/s

74% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

144% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

88.26 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

176.5 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

79% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.65 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

259% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

5888

187% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

184

43% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 586

53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3070 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q.