NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA RTX A4000 16 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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$ 1385.00

$ 541.95

$ 843.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7111 points

12174 points

71% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

175 FPS

289 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

88 FPS

141 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

119 FPS

206 FPS

88 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

65 FPS

114 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11018 points

185% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3139.35 points

5402.96 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

122638 points

168368 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

127645 points

158623 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2190 MHz

197% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz

2430 MHz

55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

12 GiB

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

140 W

114% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

149.8 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

299.5 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

19.17 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

81% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

7168

16% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

224

16% 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

66th of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

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

RTX A4000 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the RTX A4000 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 significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the RTX A4000 has slightly more memory with 16 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 RTX A4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 4070 over the RTX A4000.