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.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104
Market segmentDesktop
Release date20 August 2024 (1 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 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1920 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed2475 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors35,800 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate455.4of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power29.15 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs64of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs184of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores184of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores46of 188 (RTX PRO 6000)
L1 Cache5.8 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache36 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed2500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth480.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
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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 and SDK support

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
DLSS+

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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