Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2017 Sep 2020
Generation GeForce 10 Mobile GeForce 30
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1215 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 1379 MHz 1725 MHz
Memory Clock 2002 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.3GB/s 448.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 16 46
Shading Units 2048 5888
TMUs 128 184
ROPs 64 96
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 2 MB 4 MB
Tensor Cores 184
RT Cores 46
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 88.26 GPixel/s 165.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 176.5 GTexel/s 317.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 88.26 GFLOPS 20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.648 TFLOPS 20.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 176.5 GFLOPS 317.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP104 GA104
GPU Variant N17E-G2-A1 GA104-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Process Size 16 nm 8 nm
Transistors 7.2 billion 17.4 billion
Die Size 314 mm² 392 mm²
Board Design
TDP 115W 220W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 12-pin
Suggested PSU 550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 6.1 8.6
Shader Model 6.4 6.6