Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4090 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3070
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+5 W)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+217 mm²)
  • + Normalized score (+3.5)
B GeForce RTX 4090
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+8 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+500 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+586 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+128 bit)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+58,900M)
  • + CUDA cores (+10496)
  • + TMUs (+328)
  • + ROPs (+80)
  • + RT cores (+82)
  • + Tensor cores (+328)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+62.27 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+277.90 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+972.60 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+18.7)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+12683)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+11632)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+20713)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3070
 Component B
GeForce RTX 4090
Release year 2021 2023 (+2)
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 16 GB (+8 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1750 MHz 2250 MHz (+500 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 448 GB/s 1034 GB/s (+586 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 256 bit 384 bit (+128 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 125 W (+5 W) 120 W
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 4 nm (-4 nm)
Transistors (M) 17,400M 76,300M (+58,900M)
Die size (mm²) 392 mm² (+217 mm²) 609 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 5,888 16,384 (+10496)
TMUs 184 512 (+328)
ROPs 96 176 (+80)
RT cores 46 128 (+82)
Tensor cores 184 512 (+328)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 20.31 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS (+62.27 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 165.60 GPixel/s 443.50 GPixel/s (+277.90 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 317.40 GTexel/s 1290.00 GTexel/s (+972.60 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 23.2 41.9 (+18.7)
PassMark (overall) 14,364 27,047 (+12683)
3DMark Time Spy 9,619 21,251 (+11632)
3DMark Fire Strike 25,478 46,191 (+20713)
Geekbench OpenCL 123,479 —
Geekbench Vulkan 120,982 —
Normalized score 78.5 (+3.5) 75.0

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 4090 Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 56 FPS 87 FPS 55.4% (B)
ARC Raiders 92 FPS 197 FPS 114.1% (B)
Alan Wake 2 53 FPS 109 FPS 105.7% (B)
Alone in the Dark 150 FPS 195 FPS 30% (B)
Anno 117: Pax Romana 56 FPS 96 FPS 71.4% (B)
Armored Core 6 101 FPS 109 FPS 7.9% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 101 FPS 195 FPS 93.1% (B)
Assassin's Creed Shadows 39 FPS 77 FPS 97.4% (B)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 63 FPS 144 FPS 128.6% (B)
Atlas Fallen 127 FPS 182 FPS 43.3% (B)
Atomic Heart 89 FPS 144 FPS 61.8% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 61 FPS 114 FPS 86.9% (B)
Back 4 Blood 205 FPS 309 FPS 50.7% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 102 FPS 123 FPS 20.6% (B)
Battlefield 5 120 FPS 170 FPS 41.7% (B)
Black Myth: Wukong 46 FPS 67 FPS 45.7% (B)
Borderlands 3 78 FPS 162 FPS 107.7% (B)
Borderlands 4 40 FPS 55 FPS 37.5% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 72 FPS 155 FPS 115.3% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 90 FPS 147 FPS 63.3% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 101 FPS 155 FPS 53.5% (B)
Civilization 7 122 FPS 161 FPS 32% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 134 FPS 235 FPS 75.4% (B)
Control 70 FPS 184 FPS 162.9% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 241 FPS 300 FPS 24.5% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 194 FPS 219 FPS 12.9% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 119 FPS 147 FPS 23.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 67 FPS 98 FPS 46.3% (B)
Dead Island 2 164 FPS 190 FPS 15.9% (B)
Dead Space Remake 73 FPS 130 FPS 78.1% (B)
Death Stranding 74 FPS 167 FPS 125.7% (B)
Diablo 4 159 FPS 361 FPS 127% (B)
Doom: The Dark Ages 55 FPS 106 FPS 92.7% (B)
Dota 2 130 FPS 199 FPS 53.1% (B)
Dragon's Dogma 2 53 FPS 71 FPS 34% (B)
Dying Light 2 75 FPS 145 FPS 93.3% (B)
EA Sports FC 24 162 FPS 179 FPS 10.5% (B)
EA Sports WRC 91 FPS 117 FPS 28.6% (B)
Elden Ring 59 FPS 60 FPS 1.7% (B)
Elex 2 87 FPS 116 FPS 33.3% (B)
Enshrouded 59 FPS 94 FPS 59.3% (B)
Escape from Tarkov 110 FPS 120 FPS 9.1% (B)
F1 2020 118 FPS 344 FPS 191.5% (B)
F1 2021 66 FPS 276 FPS 318.2% (B)
F1 22 171 FPS 199 FPS 16.4% (B)
F1 24 182 FPS 216 FPS 18.7% (B)
F1 25 138 FPS 203 FPS 47.1% (B)
Far Cry 5 119 FPS 173 FPS 45.4% (B)
Far Cry 6 91 FPS 103 FPS 13.2% (B)
Far Cry New Dawn 80 FPS 145 FPS 81.3% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 28 FPS 122 FPS 335.7% (B)
Final Fantasy XVI 57 FPS 109 FPS 91.2% (B)
Fortnite 150 FPS 300 FPS 100% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 189 FPS 250 FPS 32.3% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 159 FPS 281 FPS 76.7% (B)
Forza Horizon 6 48 FPS 94 FPS 95.8% (B)
GRID Legends 153 FPS 190 FPS 24.2% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 58 FPS 154 FPS 165.5% (B)
Ghost of Tsushima 75 FPS 116 FPS 54.7% (B)
Ghostwire Tokyo 160 FPS 234 FPS 46.3% (B)
God of War 88 FPS 167 FPS 89.8% (B)
God of War Ragnarök 91 FPS 178 FPS 95.6% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 111 FPS 158 FPS 42.3% (B)
Helldivers 2 91 FPS 136 FPS 49.5% (B)
High On Life 124 FPS 211 FPS 70.2% (B)
Hogwarts Legacy 72 FPS 45 FPS +60% (A)
Horizon Forbidden West 63 FPS 89 FPS 41.3% (B)
Horizon Zero Dawn 83 FPS 174 FPS 109.6% (B)
Hunt Showdown 98 FPS 262 FPS 167.3% (B)
Immortals of Aveum 51 FPS 108 FPS 111.8% (B)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 63 FPS 136 FPS 115.9% (B)
Last Epoch 167 FPS 189 FPS 13.2% (B)
Lies of P 130 FPS 208 FPS 60% (B)
Lords of the Fallen 65 FPS 87 FPS 33.8% (B)
Mafia Definitive Edition 78 FPS 179 FPS 129.5% (B)
Metro Exodus 97 FPS 156 FPS 60.8% (B)
Once Human 109 FPS 197 FPS 80.7% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 103 FPS 139 FPS 35% (B)
Pragmata 69 FPS 111 FPS 60.9% (B)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 356 FPS 356 FPS ≈
Rainbow Six Extraction 171 FPS 346 FPS 102.3% (B)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 67 FPS 135 FPS 101.5% (B)
Ready or Not 175 FPS 158 FPS +10.8% (A)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 140 FPS 218 FPS 55.7% (B)
Returnal 93 FPS 159 FPS 71% (B)
Riders Republic 106 FPS 185 FPS 74.5% (B)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 38 FPS 74 FPS 94.7% (B)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 88 FPS 243 FPS 176.1% (B)
Skull & Bones 84 FPS 122 FPS 45.2% (B)
Sons of the Forest 73 FPS 88 FPS 20.5% (B)
Space Marine 2 68 FPS 74 FPS 8.8% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 101 FPS 118 FPS 16.8% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 67 FPS 106 FPS 58.2% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 38 FPS 83 FPS 118.4% (B)
Starfield 52 FPS 84 FPS 61.5% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 79 FPS 116 FPS 46.8% (B)
The Finals 161 FPS 175 FPS 8.7% (B)
The First Descendant 78 FPS 153 FPS 96.2% (B)
The Last of Us 72 FPS 103 FPS 43.1% (B)
The Quarry 96 FPS 177 FPS 84.4% (B)
The Witcher 3 170 FPS 394 FPS 131.8% (B)
The Witcher 3 122 FPS 290 FPS 137.7% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 128 FPS 138 FPS 7.8% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 103 FPS 168 FPS 63.1% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 127 FPS 220 FPS 73.2% (B)
Valorant 210 FPS 350 FPS 66.7% (B)
Watch Dogs Legion 62 FPS 131 FPS 111.3% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 12 FPS 78 FPS 550% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 90 FPS 167 FPS 85.6% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4090 wins 19 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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