NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 221.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

12174 points

234% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

289 FPS

217 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

141 FPS

82 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

206 FPS

160 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

114 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

68 FPS

108 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

56% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

5402.96 points

866% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

168368 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

158623 points

218% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2190 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2430 MHz

44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

360 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

100% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

80% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

169% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

439% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

7168

273% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

224

86% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2023 April

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 4070 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 4070 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce GTX 1070.