NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 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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$ 659.00

$ 1160.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1819.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4840 points

33119 points

584% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS

787 FPS

682 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS

382 FPS

311 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS

567 FPS

495 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS

318 FPS

265 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points

9236 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points

11723.75 points

431% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points

318192 points

250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points

273214 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

2235 MHz

58% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz

2520 MHz

55% 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

448 GB/s

1010 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W

157% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s

483.8 Gigapixels/s

366% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s

1290 Gigatexels/s

452% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

1006% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

16384

611% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

512

255% 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

106th of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 4090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the GeForce RTX 2070 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 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4090 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 RTX 2070 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the GeForce RTX 2070.