nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

$499 Aug 2020 View Details

nvidia

Brand

24GB GDDR6X

Memory

16384

Cores

1010 GB/s

Bandwidth

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

$1599 Sep 2022 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8GB GDDR6 220W $499 Aug 2020

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

GeForce RTX 4090

$1599 • Sep 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24GB GDDR6X 450W $1599 Sep 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Memory Size	8 GB	24 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
TDP	220 W	450 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1725 MHz	2520 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/s	1010 GB/s
Process Size	8nm	5nm
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Shading Units	5888	16384
RT Cores	46	128
TMUs	184	512
ROPs	96	176
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	1750 MHz	1313 MHz
Pixel Rate	165.6 GPixel/s	443.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	448 GTexel/s	1.01 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	20.31 GFLOPS	82.58 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	72.00 MB
Die Size	392 mm²	609 mm²
Transistors	17400 Million	76300 Million
Required PSU	550 W	850 W
Power Connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	Samsung	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

14126

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

42193 (+199%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

126195

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

316301 (+151%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

170.2 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

615.9 FPS (+262%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

22256

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

38309 (+72%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Game Benchmarks Comparison (348 benchmarks)

Dying Light The Beast

8 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+128%)

AVG 171 FPS

MIN 154 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+145%)

AVG 135 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 4090 (+165%)

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Borderlands 4

7.8 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Gearbox Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+185%)

AVG 94 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 33 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+313%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+486%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 7 FPS

MIN 6 FPS

Winner

Loser

Split Fiction

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure • Hazelight Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+130%)

AVG 295 FPS

MIN 258 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+155%)

AVG 237 FPS

MIN 206 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 93 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+173%)

AVG 153 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

Winner

Loser

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

7.9 2025 • Action, Adventure • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+224%)

AVG 159 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+319%)

AVG 155 FPS

MIN 114 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+742%)

AVG 101 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 12 FPS

MIN 5 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+333%)

AVG 91 FPS

MIN 70 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 21 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+500%)

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 14 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 4090 (+1600%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 3 FPS

MIN 2 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sniper Elite Resistance

8.5 2025 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+168%)

AVG 343 FPS

MIN 318 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 128 FPS

MIN 112 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+183%)

AVG 277 FPS

MIN 235 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+190%)

AVG 174 FPS

MIN 153 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

Winner

Loser

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

8.1 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Square Enix

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+125%)

AVG 171 FPS

MIN 155 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+143%)

AVG 141 FPS

MIN 127 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 4090 (+203%)

AVG 97 FPS

MIN 85 FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Wins!

Based on 351 benchmarks across 97 games

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3070

+135.5%

146

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 4090