NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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Graphics Processor

GPU model TU106 GA104
GPU variant TU106-400A-A1 GA104-300-A1
Architecture Turing Ampere
Foundry TSMC Samsung
Manufacturing process 12 nm 8 nm
Number of transistors 10,800 million 17,400 million
Die size 445 mm² 392 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 17th, 2018 Sep 1st, 2020
Generation GeForce 20 GeForce 30
Predecessor GeForce 10 GeForce 20
Production Active Active
Launch price 499 USD 499 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Reviews 73 in our database 78 in our database
Successor GeForce 30
gpu.details.availability Oct 29th, 2020

Clocks

Base clock 1410 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost clock 1620 MHz 1725 MHz
Memory clock 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective 1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 448.0 GB/s 448.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2304 5888
TMUs 144 184
ROPs 64 96
SM count 36 46
Tensor cores 288 184
RT cores 36 46
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 4 MB 4 MB

Performance

Pixel rate 103.7 GPixel/s 165.6 GPixel/s
Texture rate 233.3 GTexel/s 317.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 14.93 TFLOPS (2:1) 20.31 TFLOPS (1:1)
FP32 (float) performance 7.465 TFLOPS 20.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 233.3 GFLOPS (1:32) 317.4 GFLOPS (1:64)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches 242 mm 9.5 inches
Width 113 mm 4.4 inches 112 mm 4.4 inches
Height 35 mm 1.4 inches
TDP 175 W 220 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x DisplayPort1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Board number PG160 SKU 52 PG142 SKU 10

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
CUDA 7.5 8.6
Shader model 6.6 6.6

Other Features

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