NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

1920

Cores

256.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1070

N/A Jun 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3070

N/A Aug 2020 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

8GB GDDR5 150W N/A Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 1070

$379 • Jun 2016

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8GB GDDR6 220W N/A Aug 2020

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
TDP	150 W	220 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1683 MHz	1725 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	256.3 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	8nm
Architecture	Pascal	Ampere
Shading Units	1920	5888
RT Cores	N/A	46
TMUs	120	184
ROPs	64	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	107.7 GPixel/s	165.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	256.3 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	6.463 GFLOPS	20.31 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	392 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	17400 Million
Required PSU	450 W	550 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

5844

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

14126 (+142%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

53429

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

126195 (+136%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

75.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

170.2 FPS (+126%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

13504

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

22256 (+65%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (189 benchmarks)

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Background

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

8.7 2022 • Action, Adventure, Casual • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+103%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+122%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+157%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3070 (+132%)

AVG 223 FPS

MIN 204 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3070 (+131%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3070 (+138%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+104%)

AVG 363 FPS

MIN 227 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 178 FPS

MIN 118 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+106%)

AVG 257 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 125 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+112%)

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

8 2022 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+131%)

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+155%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+215%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 13 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

Winner

Loser

Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem

8.6 2022 • Action, Adventure • Croteam, Timelock Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+68%)

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+96%)

AVG 110 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+88%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

ICARUS

7.7 2021 • Action, Adventure, Simulation • RocketWerkz

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+126%)

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+132%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+120%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 10 FPS

MIN 7 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Wins!

Based on 189 benchmarks across 61 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

+113%

106

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3070