GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER sales at a recommended price of $599. This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512.0 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 242 mm. 1x 12-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA104 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $599 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6144 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1695 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 18,000 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 325.4 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point performance | 20.83 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER 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).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 242 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 12-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER: 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 type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 16000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 512.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER. 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 Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER is Radeon RX 6900.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER according to our statistics.
