NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 3070 compared with GeForce RTX 4070

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 4070
Overview
Released
Released	October 2020	April 2023
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Shader cores
Shader cores	5,888	5,888
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,730 MHz	2,475 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	GA104; 46 Streaming Multiprocessors. NVIDIA reference specifications; photo shows PNY's stock-clock UPRISING Dual Fan LHR revision, whose cooler and dimensions differ from the Founders Edition.	AD104 GPU; 46 SMs. NVIDIA reference specifications; photo illustrates an ASUS DUAL partner cooler without establishing its memory type or factory overclock.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	Samsung 8 nm 8N NVIDIA custom process; 17.4 billion transistors; 392.5 mm² die	TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process; 35.8 billion transistors; 294.5 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	46 second-generation RT Cores	46 third-generation RT Cores; 67 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	184 third-generation Tensor Cores	184 fourth-generation Tensor Cores; 466 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation	DLSS 3.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	1.50 GHz; the NVIDIA architecture whitepaper specifies 1,725 MHz boost, rounded to 1.73 GHz on the current specification page	1.92 GHz; stock PNY and Gainward cards confirm 2,475 MHz boost, while NVIDIA rounds it to 2.48 GHz
Cache
Cache	4,096 KB L2	36 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6X or 12 GB GDDR6 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit (better)	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	504 GB/s or 480 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	14 Gbps GDDR6	GDDR6X at 21 Gbps and 504 GB/s (stock PNY); later GDDR6 at 20 Gbps and 480 GB/s (stock Gainward). Both have 12 GB on a 192-bit bus
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	220 W	200 W (better)
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1a; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320; HDMI supports 4K 120 Hz HDR or 8K 60 Hz HDR	4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC, HDR
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 8-pin cable through the included adapter to 1 × 12-pin (Founders Edition)	1 × 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 2 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box; some partner cards use 1 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	650 W, based on NVIDIA's Intel Core i9-10900K test system	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (Founders Edition)	2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	242 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)	244 × 112 mm, 2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVENC, fifth-generation NVDEC; hardware AV1 decode, no AV1 encode	1 × eighth-generation NVENC, 1 × fifth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode