NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 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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$ 559.30

$ 541.95

$ 17.35 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

12174 points

50% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

289 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

141 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

206 FPS

66 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

114 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

169 FPS

29 FPS slightly higher Apex Legends FPS

140 FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

77 FPS

117 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

62 FPS

66 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher ELDEN RING FPS

59 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

135 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

226 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

95 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Rainbow Six Siege FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

294 FPS

36 FPS slightly higher Rainbow Six Siege FPS

258 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

127 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

108 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

253% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

5402.96 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

168368 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

158623 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

2190 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2430 MHz

40% slightly 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

220 W

36% slightly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

71% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

71% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

7168

21% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

224

21% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

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 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 also has a slightly 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 RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070.