NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 339.00 significantly less expensive

$ 659.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

4821 points

32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

104 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

70 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

71 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

53 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

9001 points

48% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

2206.17 points

294% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

96024 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

85818 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

73515 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

90905 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

84097 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

1410 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

1620 MHz

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

150 W

16% slightly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

103.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

233.3 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

7.46 TFLOPS

15% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2304

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

144

20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

106th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2018 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 2070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2070 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2070 at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2070 is better than the GeForce GTX 1070.