NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce RTX 3070 compared with GeForce RTX 5090

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5090
Overview
Released
Released	October 2020	January 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Ampere	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	5,888	21,760
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,730 MHz	2,407 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.	GB202 GPU; 170 SMs, 680 texture units, 176 ROPs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	Samsung 8 nm 8N NVIDIA custom process; 17.4 billion transistors; 392.5 mm² die	TSMC 4nm (4N NVIDIA custom process); 92.2 billion transistors; 750 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	46 second-generation RT Cores	170 fourth-generation RT Cores; 318 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	184 third-generation Tensor Cores	680 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 3352 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation	DLSS 4.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation and Dynamic Multi 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	2.01 GHz
Cache
Cache	4,096 KB L2	96 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	32 GB GDDR7 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit	512-bit (better)
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	1,792 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	14 Gbps GDDR6	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	220 W (better)	575 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; 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 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 8-pin cable through the included adapter to 1 × 12-pin (Founders Edition)	1 × 600 W PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 4 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	650 W, based on NVIDIA's Intel Core i9-10900K test system	1000 W
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (Founders Edition)	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	242 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)	304 × 137 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVENC, fifth-generation NVDEC; hardware AV1 decode, no AV1 encode	3 × ninth-generation NVENC, 2 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode