GeForce RTX 3070
The GeForce RTX 3070 is Nvidia’s 8GB graphics card with a 220W board power rating, built on the Ampere GA104 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks, plus all 17 board versions we track, each with its cheapest current price.
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Gaming performance
Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.
Gaming scores are normalised performance indexes derived from Tom’s Hardware’s published GPU benchmarks. Performance per dollar and per watt are our own calculations on top of that data.
1080p Gaming
1440p Gaming
4K Gaming
The GeForce RTX 3070 scores 47.3 at 1080p, 31.8 at 1440p, and 25.8 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.
Performance-per-dollar rank among all GPUs with live pricing
Value at 1080p
#13
of 51
Value at 1440p
#12
of 50
Value at 4K
#10
of 46
Benchmarks
Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.
3D & gaming
Render
Compute & AI
GeForce RTX 3070 versions (17)
Every board version we track, cheapest first.
- $453.87
- ASUS TUF RTX 3070 GAMING$463.98300 mm
- GIGABYTE RTX 3070 EAGLE OC$467.92OC282 mm
- $477.76
- ZOTAC RTX 3070 Twin Edge$480.26232 mm
- $585.00
- EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 ULTRA$589.00300 mm
- $595.00
- $599.00
- $599.00
- ZOTAC RTX 3070 Twin Edge OC LHR$635.00OC232 mm
- MSI RTX 3070 VENTUS 2X OC$649.00OC232 mm
- $679.00
- MSI RTX 3070 VENTUS 3X OC LHR$695.00OC305 mm
- $725.00
- $735.00
- $740.00
| Version | Boost Clock | Length | Color | From | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GIGABYTE AORUS RTX 3070 MASTER | — | 290 mm | — | $453.87 | | |
| ASUS TUF RTX 3070 GAMING | — | 300 mm | — | $463.98 | | |
| GIGABYTE RTX 3070 EAGLE OCOC | — | 282 mm | — | $467.92 | | |
| GIGABYTE AORUS RTX 3070 MASTER Rev. 2.0 | — | 290 mm | — | $477.76 | | |
| ZOTAC RTX 3070 Twin Edge | — | 232 mm | — | $480.26 | | |
| EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 ULTRA LHR | — | 300 mm | — | $585.00 | | |
| EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 ULTRA | — | 300 mm | — | $589.00 | | |
| PNY XLR8 RTX 3070 REVEL EPIC-X Triple Fan LHR | — | 294 mm | — | $595.00 | | |
| PNY XLR8 RTX 3070 REVEL EPIC-X Triple Fan | — | 294 mm | — | $599.00 | | |
| MSI RTX 3070 GAMING Z TRIO LHR | — | 323 mm | — | $599.00 | | |
| ZOTAC RTX 3070 Twin Edge OC LHROC | — | 232 mm | — | $635.00 | | |
| MSI RTX 3070 VENTUS 2X OCOC | — | 232 mm | — | $649.00 | | |
| MSI RTX 3070 GAMING X TRIO | — | 323 mm | — | $679.00 | | |
| MSI RTX 3070 VENTUS 3X OC LHROC | — | 305 mm | — | $695.00 | | |
| ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3070 GAMING | — | 319 mm | — | $725.00 | | |
| ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3070 V2 GAMING OCOC | — | 319 mm | — | $735.00 | | |
| GIGABYTE RTX 3070 EAGLE OC Rev. 2.0OC | — | 282 mm | — | $740.00 | |
17 board versions of the GeForce RTX 3070 are listed above, starting from $453.87. Prices update daily from live retailer stock. Click any version name for its full spec sheet and all current retailer prices.
Specifications
Board versions of the GeForce RTX 3070 range from 232–323 mm long, so check your case's GPU clearance before buying.
Performance
- Boost clock
- 1725 MHz
- Base clock
- 1500 MHz
- Shader cores
- 5,888
- SM count
- 46
- Texture units (TMUs)
- 184
- Render outputs (ROPs)
- 96
- RT cores
- 46 · 2nd gen
- Tensor / AI cores
- 184 · 3rd gen
Memory
- VRAM
- 8GB GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- Memory speed
- 14 Gbps
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
GPU die
- Architecture
- Ampere GA104
- Process node
- Samsung 8N
- Foundry
- Samsung
- Die size
- 392 mm²
- Transistors
- 17.4 billion
- Generation
- GeForce RTX 30
Power
- TDP
- 220W
- Recommended PSU
- 650W
- Power connectors
- 1 12-pin
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680 × 4320
- Max displays
- 4
- HDCP
- 2.3
- Outputs
- 1 HDMI 2.1, 3 Displayport 1.4a
- PCIe interface
- PCIe 4.0 ×16
APIs & software
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12.2)
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- CUDA
- Compute 8.6
- Shader model
- 6.8
Video encoding & decoding
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 / AVC | Supported | Supported |
| H.265 / HEVC | Supported | Supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Supported |
| VP9 | Not supported | Supported |
Encoder: NVENC 7th gen · Decoder: NVDEC 5th gen
Features
- Upscaling
- DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction
- Also runs
- FSR 3, FSR 3 Frame Generation, XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
- Resizable BAR
- Yes
Physical
- Reference length
- 242 mm
- Slot width
- 2 slots
- Released
- 2020-10-29
- MSRP
- $499.00
5,888 shader cores feed a 256-bit memory interface delivering 448 GB/s of peak bandwidth. 46 RT cores handle real-time ray tracing; 184 tensor cores accelerate AI workloads and DLSS Super Resolution. Compare the GeForce RTX 3070 against the full GPU lineup on the full graphics card rankings.
Local AI performance
What the GeForce RTX 3070 can run on your own machine, and how fast.
Largest model it can run (8K context)
- Q4 (the usual choice, near-original quality)
- ~9.3B
- Q8 (closer to original, half the model size)
- ~5.3B
- FP16 (unquantised, for training and research)
- ~2.8B
Parameter counts the card holds with room for an 8K conversation, counting the model weights plus its attention cache. A longer conversation needs more memory, so it lowers these figures.
Speed & value
- Speed, 8B model at Q4
- 73-84 tok/s
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- Price per GB of VRAM
- $56.73
Generation speed tracks memory bandwidth, because every word produced reads the whole model from memory. Shown as a range.
Models that fit, at Q4
| Model | Size | Memory needed | Est. speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glm4 9B | 9.4B | 5.8GB | 61-71 tok/s |
| Yi 9B | 8.8B | 5.8GB | 66-76 tok/s |
| Yi Coder 9B | 8.8B | 5.8GB | 66-76 tok/s |
Popular models small enough for this card at Q4, one per family. Speed is left blank for mixture-of-experts models, where a bandwidth estimate is not reliable enough to publish.
Across generations
Where the GeForce RTX 3070 sits in Nvidia’s lineup — the generation before and after.
How the GeForce RTX 3070 compares
Similar cards worth a look, based on live prices and 1440p gaming performance. Open a card for its full spec sheet, or a head-to-head for the side-by-side benchmark and price breakdown.
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