NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Consumes The Same Power As An RTX 3060 But As Fast As An RTX 3080

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 is going to be an extremely efficient graphics card for gaming when it launches in a few weeks.

In an official slide leaked by Videocardz, we get to see the specifications, pricing and a few compute performance figures of the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Graphics Card Specifications

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is expected to feature the AD104-250/251 GPU core. The GPU will feature 5888 CUDA cores, and 12 GB GDDR6X VRAM clocked at 21 Gbps, driving the bandwidth up to 504 GB/s (a 12.5% increase over the RTX 3070), The GPU gets 36 MB L2 cache which is 9x higher than the RTX 3070's GA104 GPU.

There seem to be three PCB boards designed for the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics cards. Two of these are for the reference cards while one is for the Founders Edition as listed below:

Following is a comparison of all the known Ada GPU dies for desktop graphics cards. (Credits to MEGAsizeGPU/TechpowerUP GPU Database for the AD102/AD103/AD104 die shots).

The graphics card is expected to feature a 200W TGP so you're getting an 8% reduction in power compared to the RTX 3070. The slide also lists down average gaming power which is rated at 186 Watts or 13.5% lower than the RTX 3070 and 22.5% lower than the RTX 3070 Ti. This is in fact the same power consumption as the NVIDIA RTX 3060 while the card should deliver performance on par or faster than the RTX 3080 12 GB which consumed anywhere between 300-320W. That's a massive increase in efficiency.

As for the compute performance figures, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card features 29 Shader FP32 TFLOPs, 67 RT TFLOPs, 300 OFA, and 400 Tensor TOPs. The compute performance is on par with NVIDIA's RTX 3080 12 GB (30 TFLOPs).

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