NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 1499.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

33119 points

808% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

72 FPS

787 FPS

714 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

382 FPS

323 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

567 FPS

520 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

318 FPS

271 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

9236 points

52% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

11723.75 points

1997% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

318192 points

534% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

273214 points

447% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

2235 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

2520 MHz

49% significantly 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

1010 GB/s

294% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

200% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

349% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

538% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1177% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

16384

753% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

512

326% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 October

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 4090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly 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 RTX 4090 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 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 significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1070.