GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 sales 20 August 2024 at a recommended price of $599 . This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ada Lovelace architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 12 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 480.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 240 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104
Market segmentDesktop
Release date20 August 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5888of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1920 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed2475 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors35,800 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate455.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power29.15 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs64of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs184of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores184of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores46of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length240 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2500 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth480.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.8
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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