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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070

Compare specifications, gaming benchmarks, and prices for these two GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Release Date: October 29, 2020
MSRP: $499 USD
GPU Architecture: ampere
Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.6

Pricing

Lowest Price: $216
Average Price: $292
Active Listings: 99

MSRP: $499

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070

Release Date: April 13, 2023
MSRP: $599 USD
GPU Architecture: ada
Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.9

Pricing

Lowest Price: $486
Average Price: $785
Active Listings: 48

MSRP: $599

Specifications Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070
FP32 TFLOPs	31st @ 20.31 TFLOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)	70th @ 58.2 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FP16 TFLOPs	56th @ 162.5 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)	66th @ 233.2 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Tensor Core Count	43rd @ 184 Cores (Entry Tier)(Entry)	43rd @ 184 Cores (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Memory Capacity (GB)	21st @ 8 GB	35th @ 12 GB (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	36th @ 448 GB/s (Entry Tier)(Entry)	42nd @ 504 GB/s (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Int8 TOPs	27th @ 162.51 TOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)	44th @ 233.2 TOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)

Gaming Benchmarks Comparison

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (4K)	28th @ 143 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	49th @ 190 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1440p)	38th @ 282 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	Data not available
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1080p)	55th @ 439 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	Data not available
Counter-Strike 2 (4K)	Data not available	46th @ 145 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Counter-Strike 2 (1440p)	Data not available	59th @ 264 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Counter-Strike 2 (1080p)	Data not available	Data not available
FurMark (GL) (4K)	34th @ 58 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	47th @ 69 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
FurMark (GL) (1440p)	30th @ 112 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	57th @ 152 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FurMark (GL) (1080p)	33rd @ 154 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	58th @ 204 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FurMark (VK) (4K)	21st @ 54 FPS	32nd @ 60 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
FurMark (VK) (1440p)	36th @ 112 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	58th @ 145 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FurMark (VK) (1080p)	40th @ 172 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	58th @ 209 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Quake II RTX (4K)	38th @ 42 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	50th @ 53 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Quake II RTX (1440p)	67th @ 68 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	Data not available
Quake II RTX (1080p)	63rd @ 102 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	Data not available