Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 3070

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 3070 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4070
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+250 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+56 GB/s)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-3 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+18,400M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+98 mm²)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+8.84 TFLOPS)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+138.00 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+8.3)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+5125)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+2341)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+4573)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+45216)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+38303)
  • + Normalized score (+6.0)
B GeForce RTX 3070
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+10 W)
  • + ROPs (+32)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+7.20 GPixel/s)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4070
Component B
GeForce RTX 3070
Release year 2023 (+2) 2021
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz (+250 MHz) 1750 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 504 GB/s (+56 GB/s) 448 GB/s
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit 256 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W 125 W (+10 W)
Lithography (nm) 5 nm (-3 nm) 8 nm
Transistors (M) 35,800M (+18,400M) 17,400M
Die size (mm²) 294 mm² (+98 mm²) 392 mm²
Base clock (MHz)
Boost clock (MHz)
CUDA cores 5,888 5,888
TMUs 184 184
ROPs 64 96 (+32)
RT cores 46 46
Tensor cores 184 184
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 29.15 TFLOPS (+8.84 TFLOPS) 20.31 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 158.40 GPixel/s 165.60 GPixel/s (+7.20 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 455.40 GTexel/s (+138.00 GTexel/s) 317.40 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 31.5 (+8.3) 23.2
PassMark (overall) 19,489 (+5125) 14,364
3DMark Time Spy 11,960 (+2341) 9,619
3DMark Fire Strike 30,051 (+4573) 25,478
Geekbench OpenCL 168,695 (+45216) 123,479
Geekbench Vulkan 159,285 (+38303) 120,982
Normalized score 84.5 (+6.0) 78.5

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 3070 Delta
007 First Light 74 FPS 58 FPS +27.6% (A)
A Plague Tale Requiem 59 FPS 56 FPS +5.4% (A)
ARC Raiders 116 FPS 92 FPS +26.1% (A)
Alan Wake 2 65 FPS 53 FPS +22.6% (A)
Alone in the Dark 126 FPS 150 FPS 19% (B)
Anno 117: Pax Romana 67 FPS 56 FPS +19.6% (A)
Anno 1800 92 FPS 35 FPS +162.9% (A)
Armored Core 6 91 FPS 101 FPS 11% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 116 FPS 101 FPS +14.9% (A)
Assassin's Creed Shadows 46 FPS 39 FPS +17.9% (A)
Atlas Fallen 107 FPS 127 FPS 18.7% (B)
Atomic Heart 86 FPS 89 FPS 3.5% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 65 FPS 61 FPS +6.6% (A)
Back 4 Blood 221 FPS 205 FPS +7.8% (A)
Baldur's Gate 3 73 FPS 102 FPS 39.7% (B)
Battlefield 5 140 FPS 120 FPS +16.7% (A)
Battlefield 6 105 FPS 81 FPS +29.6% (A)
Black Myth: Wukong 54 FPS 46 FPS +17.4% (A)
Borderlands 3 107 FPS 78 FPS +37.2% (A)
Borderlands 4 52 FPS 40 FPS +30% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 81 FPS 72 FPS +12.5% (A)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 111 FPS 90 FPS +23.3% (A)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 99 FPS 101 FPS 2% (B)
Civilization 7 118 FPS 122 FPS 3.4% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 135 FPS 134 FPS +0.7% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 250 FPS 241 FPS +3.7% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 152 FPS 194 FPS 27.6% (B)
Crimson Desert 69 FPS 54 FPS +27.8% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 135 FPS 119 FPS +13.4% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 58 FPS 67 FPS 15.5% (B)
Days Gone 155 FPS 112 FPS +38.4% (A)
Dead Island 2 152 FPS 164 FPS 7.9% (B)
Dead Space Remake 81 FPS 73 FPS +11% (A)
Death Stranding 2 73 FPS 57 FPS +28.1% (A)
Deathloop 130 FPS 106 FPS +22.6% (A)
Diablo 4 207 FPS 159 FPS +30.2% (A)
Doom: The Dark Ages 68 FPS 55 FPS +23.6% (A)
Dota 2 178 FPS 130 FPS +36.9% (A)
Dragon's Dogma 2 61 FPS 53 FPS +15.1% (A)
Dying Light 2 95 FPS 75 FPS +26.7% (A)
EA Sports FC 24 162 FPS 162 FPS
EA Sports WRC 85 FPS 91 FPS 7.1% (B)
Elden Ring 60 FPS 59 FPS +1.7% (A)
Elex 2 118 FPS 87 FPS +35.6% (A)
Enshrouded 63 FPS 59 FPS +6.8% (A)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 110 FPS +9.1% (A)
F1 2020 228 FPS 118 FPS +93.2% (A)
F1 2021 163 FPS 66 FPS +147% (A)
F1 22 109 FPS 171 FPS 56.9% (B)
F1 24 179 FPS 182 FPS 1.7% (B)
F1 25 156 FPS 138 FPS +13% (A)
Far Cry 5 139 FPS 119 FPS +16.8% (A)
Far Cry 6 105 FPS 91 FPS +15.4% (A)
Far Cry New Dawn 102 FPS 80 FPS +27.5% (A)
Farming Simulator 22 148 FPS 139 FPS +6.5% (A)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 41 FPS 28 FPS +46.4% (A)
Final Fantasy XVI 59 FPS 57 FPS +3.5% (A)
Flight Simulator 2020 83 FPS 42 FPS +97.6% (A)
Fortnite 200 FPS 150 FPS +33.3% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 180 FPS 189 FPS 5% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 190 FPS 159 FPS +19.5% (A)
Forza Horizon 6 71 FPS 48 FPS +47.9% (A)
GRID Legends 126 FPS 153 FPS 21.4% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS
GTA V 134 FPS 58 FPS +131% (A)
Ghost of Tsushima 82 FPS 75 FPS +9.3% (A)
Ghostwire Tokyo 172 FPS 160 FPS +7.5% (A)
God of War 96 FPS 88 FPS +9.1% (A)
God of War Ragnarök 98 FPS 91 FPS +7.7% (A)
Guardians of the Galaxy 147 FPS 111 FPS +32.4% (A)
Halo Infinite 149 FPS 94 FPS +58.5% (A)
Helldivers 2 92 FPS 91 FPS +1.1% (A)
High On Life 127 FPS 124 FPS +2.4% (A)
Hitman 3 208 FPS 121 FPS +71.9% (A)
Hogwarts Legacy 57 FPS 72 FPS 26.3% (B)
Horizon Forbidden West 59 FPS 63 FPS 6.8% (B)
Horizon Zero Dawn 143 FPS 83 FPS +72.3% (A)
Immortals of Aveum 56 FPS 51 FPS +9.8% (A)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 55 FPS 63 FPS 14.5% (B)
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 89 FPS 69 FPS +29% (A)
Last Epoch 156 FPS 167 FPS 7.1% (B)
Lies of P 150 FPS 130 FPS +15.4% (A)
Lords of the Fallen 63 FPS 65 FPS 3.2% (B)
Metro Exodus 111 FPS 97 FPS +14.4% (A)
Need for Speed Unbound 99 FPS 90 FPS +10% (A)
Once Human 105 FPS 109 FPS 3.8% (B)
Outriders 145 FPS 94 FPS +54.3% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS
Palworld 102 FPS 103 FPS 1% (B)
Pragmata 92 FPS 69 FPS +33.3% (A)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 322 FPS 356 FPS 10.6% (B)
Rainbow Six Extraction 240 FPS 171 FPS +40.4% (A)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 58 FPS 67 FPS 15.5% (B)
Ready or Not 194 FPS 175 FPS +10.9% (A)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 160 FPS 140 FPS +14.3% (A)
Resident Evil Requiem 102 FPS 80 FPS +27.5% (A)
Resident Evil Village 212 FPS 136 FPS +55.9% (A)
Returnal 64 FPS 93 FPS 45.3% (B)
Riders Republic 135 FPS 106 FPS +27.4% (A)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 34 FPS 38 FPS 11.8% (B)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 149 FPS 88 FPS +69.3% (A)
Skull & Bones 94 FPS 84 FPS +11.9% (A)
Sons of the Forest 72 FPS 73 FPS 1.4% (B)
Space Marine 2 58 FPS 68 FPS 17.2% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 115 FPS 101 FPS +13.9% (A)
Stalker 2 50 FPS 53 FPS 6% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 65 FPS 67 FPS 3.1% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 40 FPS 38 FPS +5.3% (A)
Starfield 51 FPS 52 FPS 2% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 112 FPS 79 FPS +41.8% (A)
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered 67 FPS 48 FPS +39.6% (A)
The Finals 168 FPS 161 FPS +4.3% (A)
The First Descendant 87 FPS 78 FPS +11.5% (A)
The Last of Us 57 FPS 72 FPS 26.3% (B)
The Outer Worlds 2 84 FPS 65 FPS +29.2% (A)
The Quarry 122 FPS 96 FPS +27.1% (A)
The Witcher 3 229 FPS 170 FPS +34.7% (A)
The Witcher 3 124 FPS 122 FPS +1.6% (A)
The Witcher 3 v4 101 FPS 128 FPS 26.7% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 74 FPS 103 FPS 39.2% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 137 FPS 127 FPS +7.9% (A)
Total War: Three Kingdoms 133 FPS 101 FPS +31.7% (A)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 84 FPS 77 FPS +9.1% (A)
Valorant 260 FPS 210 FPS +23.8% (A)
Vampire Bloodhunt 200 FPS 226 FPS 13% (B)
Watch Dogs Legion 130 FPS 62 FPS +109.7% (A)
X-Plane 11.11 52 FPS 12 FPS +333.3% (A)

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

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4070 wins 15 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).