NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 541.95

$ 1008.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

14% slightly better overall score

12174 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

44 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

289 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

34 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

206 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

114 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Atomic Heart FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

122 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Atomic Heart FPS

116 FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

98 FPS

117 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS

135 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

110 FPS

226 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

115 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

118 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

95 FPS

Sons Of The Forest FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Sons Of The Forest FPS

86 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

61 FPS

106 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

62 FPS

118 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

416% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

5402.96 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168368 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

158623 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2190 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2430 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

100% significantly more memory

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

139% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

160% significantly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

300 W

16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

2% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

2% slightly higher texture rate

544.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

2% slightly better floating point performance

34.84 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

46% significantly more shading units

7168

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

46% significantly more texture mapping units

224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th 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

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 in our tests.

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 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 RTX 4070 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 over the GeForce RTX 4070.