NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070

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

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: $218
  • Average Price: $302
  • Active Listings: 104

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: $525
  • Average Price: $942
  • Active Listings: 51

MSRP: $599

Specifications Comparison

SpecificationNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070
FP32 TFLOPs
36th @ 20.31 TFLOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)
78th @ 58.2 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
FP16 TFLOPs
68th @ 162.5 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
77th @ 233.2 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
Tensor Core Count
49th @ 184 Cores (Entry Tier)(Entry)
49th @ 184 Cores (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Memory Capacity (GB)
23rd @ 8 GB
40th @ 12 GB (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)
40th @ 448 GB/s (Entry Tier)(Entry)
47th @ 504 GB/s (Entry Tier)(Entry)
Int8 TOPs
33rd @ 162.51 TOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)
54th @ 233.2 TOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)

Gaming Benchmarks Comparison

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070NVIDIA 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)
39th @ 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 availableData not available
FurMark (GL) (4K)
28th @ 58 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
40th @ 68 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
FurMark (GL) (1440p)
25th @ 113 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
55th @ 152 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FurMark (GL) (1080p)
30th @ 154 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
57th @ 205 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FurMark (VK) (4K)Data not availableData not available
FurMark (VK) (1440p)
27th @ 114 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
47th @ 145 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
FurMark (VK) (1080p)
42nd @ 172 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)
61st @ 214 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