NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
vs
Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition and the Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and has 5888 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, which has 10496 shaders and 82 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition GPU Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
AD104-250-A1 GPU Chip GA102-300-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Ampere
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 82
5888 Shader 10496
64 Render Output Units 112
184 Texture Units 328
46 Raytracing Cores 82

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS can access 24 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 936 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6X
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 1.219 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 19.5 Gbps
504 GB/s Memory bandwidth 936 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.920 GHz. The base frequency of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS is 1.395 GHz.

1.920 GHz Base Clock 1.395 GHz
2.475 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 200 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 16-Pin connector.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS has a TDP of 420 W and is supplied with the required energy via 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

200 W TDP 420 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 244 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS is 304 mm long, 138 mm high and -- wide.

244 mm Length 304 mm
112 mm Height 138 mm
-- Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition was released in Q2/2023 at a price of 599 $.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phantom+ GS was introduced in Q3/2021 at a price of 1,499 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no NED3090H19SB-1021M
Q2/2023 Release date Q3/2021
599 $ Launch Price 1,499 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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