NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 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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$ 1819.99

$ 541.95

$ 1278.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

33202 points

172% significantly better overall score

12174 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

788 FPS

499 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

289 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

382 FPS

241 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

568 FPS

361 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

206 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

318 FPS

204 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

114 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9236 points

139% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11723.75 points

116% significantly higher Blender score

5402.96 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

318192 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168368 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

273214 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

158623 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2235 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

2190 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2520 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

2430 MHz

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

1010 GB/s

180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

450 W

300 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

483.8 Gigapixels/s

148% significantly higher pixel rate

194.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

1290 Gigatexels/s

137% significantly higher texture rate

544.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

82.58 TFLOPS

137% significantly better floating point performance

34.84 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

16384

128% significantly more shading units

7168

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

512

128% significantly more texture mapping units

224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

139% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

2nd of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

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 4090 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4090 has a slightly 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 4090 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.

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 12 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 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 4090 over the GeForce RTX 4070.