NVIDIA reveals official GeForce RTX 3070 performance figures
NVIDIA today confirmed that the launch date of the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card has been postponed till October 29th. NVIDIA wants to avoid limited stock at launch, hence more cards are being produced to meet the demand. We are not sure if two weeks are going to change a lot in this matter, but the timing of this launch is definitely interesting as it lands right after the Radeon RX 6000 announcement.
In the same blog post on the NVIDIA website, we can find the very first graph showing RTX 3070 performance in synthetic and gaming scenarios.
The labels on the official graph are missing, so we went ahead and measured each graph and calculated how many pixels each bar has. This gave us values for reference. So yes, this definitely not perfect but it is better than nothing.
NVIDIA tested games with their RTX technology enabled whenever possible. It appears that DLSS was not enabled. Games were tested at 1440p resolution, which seems like a target for RTX 3070 SKU.
The RTX 3070 appears to offer slightly higher performance than RTX 2080 Ti (108% on average), but in some instances, the card is slower (Borderlands/Blender/TimeSpy Extreme). On the other hand, the card offers 147% to 163% performance of RTX 2070 in games and 153% to 226% in synthetic benchmarks.
NVIDIA officially claims that their RTX 3070 is on average 60% faster than RTX 2070:
Across a variety of ray-traced and rasterized DirectX and Vulkan titles, the GeForce RTX 3070 delivers similar or faster performance than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (which sold for twice the price) and is on average 60% faster than the original GeForce RTX 2070.
NVIDIA is now set to launch GeForce RTX 3070 on October 29th. On the same day, NVIDIA will lift the embargo on reviews, meaning that the time for purchase decisions may be limited. Hopefully, the supply will meet the demand, and customers will have time to read or watch the reviews.
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Relative Performance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | RTX 2070 (px) | RTX 2080 Ti (px) | 2080Ti/2070 | RTX 3070 (px) | 3070/2070 | 3070/2080Ti |
| Arnold | 520 | 800 | 154% | 861 | 166% | 108% |
| Ashes | 520 | 796 | 153% | 814 | 157% | 102% |
| Blender | 520 | 967 | 186% | 1176 | 226% | 122% |
| Borderlands 3 | 520 | 833 | 160% | 813 | 156% | 98% |
| Control RTX | 520 | 772 | 148% | 763 | 147% | 99% |
| Doom Eternal | 520 | 774 | 149% | 833 | 160% | 108% |
| LuxMark | 520 | 766 | 147% | 946 | 182% | 123% |
| Minecraft RTX | 520 | 815 | 157% | 852 | 164% | 105% |
| Redshift | 520 | 774 | 149% | 898 | 173% | 116% |
| Time Spy Extreme | 520 | 810 | 156% | 796 | 153% | 98% |
| Wolfenstein Youngblood RTX | 520 | 785 | 151% | 846 | 163% | 108% |
| AVERAGE | – | – | 155% | – | 168% | 108% |
Official NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Performance
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Specifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | RTX 3090 | RTX 3080 | RTX 3070 | RTX 3060 Ti |
| Picture |  |  |  | [To be leaked] |
| Reference Board | PG132 SKU 30 | PG132 SKU 10 | PG142 SKU 10 | PG190 SKU 10 |
| GPU | 8nm GA102-300 | 8nm GA102-200 | 8nm GA104-300 | 8nm GA104-200 |
| Die Size | 628 mm 2 | 628 mm 2 | 392 mm 2 | 392 mm 2 |
| Transistors | 28.3 B | 28.3 B | 17.4 B | 17.4 B |
| CUDA Cores | 10496 | 8704 | 5888 | 4864 |
| GPU Utilization | 98% | 81% | 96% | 79% |
| Tensor Cores | 328 | 272 | 184 | 152 |
| RT Cores | 82 | 68 | 46 | 38 |
| Base Clock | 1395 MHz | 1440 MHz | 1500 MHz | TBC |
| Boost Clock | 1695 MHz | 1710 MHz | 1725 MHz | TBC |
| Shader Perf. | 35.6 TFLOPS | 29.8 TFLOPS | 20.3 TFLOPS | TBC |
| Memory | 24 GB G6X | 10 GB G6X | 8 GB G6 | 8 GB G6 |
| Memory Clock | 19.5 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Memory Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Max Bandwidth | 936 GB/s | 760 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s |
| Thermal Design | 350W | 320W | 220W | ~180W |
| MSRP | $1,499 | $699 | $499 | TBC |
| Release Date | September 24th | September 17th | October 29th | TBC |