Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada vs GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada 16 GB with 22 pipelines and 2816 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
23.1
(Mediocre)
Value Index
96.5
(Very good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 over RTX 2000 Ada
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
  • 69% higher maximum theoretical performance (20.3 vs 12 TFLOPS)
  • Features 96 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s
  • Achieves 41% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (126K vs 89K)
  • Has 2.1x more shading units (5888 vs 2816)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
147
99
86
61
The Witcher 3 -
168
143
100
54
Counter-Strike 2 -
244
194
137
77
Far Cry 6 -
132
121
96
54
Hogwarts Legacy -
97
80
62
35
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
121
113
85
52
Ghost of Tsushima -
89
74
56
31
Cyberpunk 2077 -
106
94
59
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
165
153
113
60
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 141
1080p Ultra - 119
1440p Ultra - 88
4K Ultra - 50
Margin of Error High 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
Time Spy - 13644
Solar Bay - 64452
Port Royal - 8312
Fire Strike - 34056
Wild Life Extreme - 28488
Night Raid - 122159
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
89677
RTX 3070 +41%
126195
Background Blur 170.5 img/sec 161.6 img/sec
Face Detection 102.8 img/sec 117.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.25 Gpixels/sec 5.89 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 8.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.06 Gpixels/sec 6.65 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.13 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 353.4 Gpixels/sec 550.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12273.1 FPS 17613.1 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
16935
RTX 3070 +30%
22079
G2D Mark 1073 1005
DirectX 11 138 FPS 183 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 7810 Ops/s 11007 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1055 & 38662 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2687.32
RTX 3070 +25%
3356.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 59 & 4796 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-11-15 (mit)Cinebench 20249652

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
15501
RTX 3070 +28%
19789
GB6 ML Half Precision
27554
RTX 3070 +20%
33013
GB6 ML Quantized
12117
RTX 3070 +3%
12443
Image Classification (SP) 6382 7624
Image Segmentation (HP) 16489 23420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17694 17898
Face Detection (HP) 32453 40535
Pose Estimation (Q) 56937 83624
Text Classification (SP) 3097 2724
Machine Translation (HP) 4324 4481
Object Detection (SP) 7656 10304
Depth Estimation (Q) 29700 30418
Style Transfer (SP) 116441 180089
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada and GeForce RTX 3070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 12, 2022 October 22, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $499
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 GA104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 14700K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (46th and 44th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1620 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 2130 MHz 1725 MHz
Shading Units 2816 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 46
Tensor Cores 88 184
Ray-tracing Cores 22 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 102 GPixel/s 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 187 GTexel/s 317 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
12 TFLOPS
RTX 3070 +69%
20.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 70 W 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 17 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 43.37 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s
RTX 3070 +75%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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