GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs 3070 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB with 70 pipelines and 8960 shaders against the 3 years and 8 months older RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR7
VS
8 GB GDDR6X
81.0
(Good)
Value Index
51.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 Ti over RTX 5070 Ti
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
  • Performs significantly better (up to 95%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (43.9 vs 21.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Shows 56% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 148 vs 95 FPS

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
229
164
155
121
157
101
93
66
The Witcher 3
244
215
155
83
177
149
104
57
Counter-Strike 2
298
221
172
86
255
203
142
83
Far Cry 6
178
158
146
89
136
127
106
61
Hogwarts Legacy
160
131
107
58
104
85
69
38
CoD: Modern Warfare III
212
211
163
115
129
121
92
58
Ghost of Tsushima
144
122
109
70
96
78
62
34
Cyberpunk 2077
193
176
122
55
113
100
65
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
279
265
207
106
176
167
124
67
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 215 149
1080p Ultra 185 126
1440p Ultra 148 95
4K Ultra 87 55
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
29961
15393
Time Spy 27839 14881
Solar Bay 137852 69901
Port Royal 19713 8884
Fire Strike 67490 37242
Wild Life Extreme 58033 31912
Night Raid 188802 134068
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
240508
136096
Background Blur 297.9 img/sec 197 img/sec
Face Detection 218.6 img/sec 128.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 10.1 Gpixels/sec 6.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 13.9 Gpixels/sec 8.81 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14.8 Gpixels/sec 6.47 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.03 Gpixels/sec 1.26 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1290 Gpixels/sec 609.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 35438.3 FPS 18205 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
32332
23173
G2D Mark 1323 1057
DirectX 11 303 FPS 192 FPS
DirectX 12 126 FPS 90 FPS
GPU Compute 17781 Ops/s 11384 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 21612 & 17183 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 5070 Ti +104%
7609.07
3732.22
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2974 & 2296 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-28 (NOX)Cinebench 202488980
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
36504
22516
GB6 ML Half Precision
64459
36377
GB6 ML Quantized
27312
14215
Image Classification (SP) 14913 8615
Image Segmentation (HP) 45199 24659
Image Super Resolution (Q) 39360 20631
Face Detection (HP) 84188 43834
Pose Estimation (Q) 161400 98347
Text Classification (SP) 4010 3162
Machine Translation (HP) 7973 4911
Object Detection (SP) 18934 11498
Depth Estimation (Q) 67761 34719
Style Transfer (SP) 335879 196833
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 3070 Ti

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 June 10, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $749 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
GPU Codename GB203-200-A1 GA104
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 9070 XT - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (8th and 37th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2295 MHz 1575 MHz
Boost Clock 2452 MHz 1770 MHz
Shading Units 8960 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 280 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 70 48
Tensor Cores 280 192
Ray-tracing Cores 70 48
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 235 GPixel/s 170 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 687 GTexel/s 340 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 5070 Ti +102%
43.9 TFLOPS
21.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 300 W 290 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 17 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 43.37 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1188 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 19000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
896 GB/s
608.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12.0 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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