NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 1229.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

13991 points

283% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

333 FPS

260 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

169 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

241 FPS

194 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

134 FPS

86 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

19931 points

229% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

5820.93 points

941% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

238123 points

422% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

204921 points

329% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

138859 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

194465 points

287% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

179816 points

260% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1695 MHz

0.71% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

265% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

133% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

76% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

175% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

450% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

10496

446% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

328

173% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6X

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 3090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1070 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the GeForce GTX 1070.