GeForce RTX 4090 Ti vs RTX 4070

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking20not rated
Place by popularity3266
Cost-effectiveness evaluation60.26no data
Power efficiency24.01no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 April 2023 (1 year ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores588818176
Core clock speed1920 MHz2325 MHz
Boost clock speed2475 MHz2565 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt600 Watt
Texture fill rate455.41,457
Floating-point processing power29.15 TFLOPS93.24 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs184568
Tensor Cores184568
Ray Tracing Cores46142

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length240 mm336 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin2x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6XGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount12 GB24 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth504.2 GB/s1.15 TB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 24 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 600 Watt

RTX 4070 has 200% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090 Ti, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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