NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, 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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$ 659.00

$ 541.95

$ 117.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4886 points

12174 points

149% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

105 FPS

289 FPS

184 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

141 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

72 FPS

206 FPS

135 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

54 FPS

114 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points

133% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

5402.96 points

144% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

168368 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

158623 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

2190 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

2430 MHz

49% 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

448 GB/s

24% slightly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

71% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

87% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

133% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

366% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

7168

211% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

224

55% 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

105th of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2070 in our tests.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4070 has significantly more memory with 12 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 RTX 2070 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 is better than the GeForce RTX 2070.