NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
Overview
The GeForce RTX 4070 is the 46 SM AD104 part that anchored the middle of the RTX 40 range from April 2023: 5,888 CUDA cores, 184 fourth-generation Tensor cores, and 12 GB of GDDR6X at 21 Gbps on a 192-bit bus for 504 GB/s, inside a 200 W board that runs from two 8-pin connectors. NVIDIA prints its entire precision ladder in the RTX Blackwell architecture whitepaper as a comparison column, so the 116.6 TFLOPS of dense FP8 and 233.2 TOPS of dense INT8 below are vendor figures rather than derived ones. Its 36 MB of L2 cache is six times what an equivalent Ampere part carried, which is why it performs better than its bandwidth alone suggests. For AI use it is a capable, quiet, widely available card whose 12 GB is the thing to plan around.
Performance
Peak theoretical throughput by precision type
| Precision | Dense | 2:4 Sparse |
|---|---|---|
FP64 64-bit floating point | 0.5TFLOPS | Structured sparsity is a tensor-core feature; this vector precision has no sparse form |
FP32 32-bit floating point | 29TFLOPS | Structured sparsity is a tensor-core feature; this vector precision has no sparse form |
TF32 TensorFloat-32 | 29TFLOPS | 58TFLOPS |
BF16 Brain Float 16 | 58TFLOPS | 117TFLOPS |
FP16 16-bit floating point | 58TFLOPS | 117TFLOPS |
FP8 8-bit floating point | 117TFLOPS | 233TFLOPS |
FP6 | No verified data available | The part supports 2:4 sparsity, but the vendor publishes no sparse figure for this precision |
FP4 | No verified data available | The part supports 2:4 sparsity, but the vendor publishes no sparse figure for this precision |
INT8 8-bit integer | 233TOPS | 466TOPS |
Per watt divides the dense figure by the 200 W board power. Where only a sparse figure exists, the cell says so.
The GeForce RTX 4070 12GB in the GPU landscape
Peak FP16 TFLOPS (dense) against TDP, single-GPU parts tracked by Flopper
Higher and further left is better: more half-precision throughput for less power.
Specifications
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Form Factor
PCIe
Launch Year
2023
Process Node
4nm
Memory
12 GB GDDR6X
Bandwidth
504 GB/s
TDP
200 W
Max Power
200 W
Transistors
35.8 billion
CUDA Cores
5,888
Spec Confidence
Official
Full Specifications
| Compute Engine | |
|---|---|
| CUDA Cores | 5,888 |
| Tensor Cores | 184 (4th Gen) |
| Streaming Multiprocessors | 46 |
| Base Clock | 1.92 GHz |
| Boost Clock | 2.48 GHz |
| Chip Design | |
| Transistors | 35.8 billion |
| Die Size | 295 mm² |
| Process Node | 4nm |
| Memory | |
| VRAM | 12 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X |
| Bandwidth | 504 GB/s |
| Interface Width | 192-bit |
| Memory Clock | 21 GT/s |
| Interconnect & I/O | |
| PCIe | 4.0 |
| Cache | |
| L2 Cache | 36 MB |
| Power & Thermal | |
| TDP | 200 W |
| Max Board Power | 200 W |
| Cooling | Active |
| Enterprise Features | |
| Sparsity | Yes |
| Physical & Media | |
| Card Length | 244 mm |
| Width | 2-slot |
| General | |
| Form Factor | PCIe |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| Process Node | 4nm |
| Launch Year | 2023 |
Datasheet & Resources
Flopper Datasheet
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB specifications, generated from our database. Printable.
Vendor product page
NVIDIA documentation for the GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
NVIDIA RTX Blackwell GPU Architecture Whitepaper
NVIDIA · 2025-05-12
NVIDIA Developer Documentation
Technical specs, programming guides
Data Provenance
Every figure traced to a source
Primary Source
- Publisher
- NVIDIA
- Published
- 2025-05-12
Data Quality
- Spec confidence
- Official
- Clock basis
- Boost
- Core precisions with figures
- 7 of 9
- Normalization
- All values in TFLOPS
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many TFLOPS does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 have?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 delivers 29 TFLOPS FP32, 58 TFLOPS FP16 and 117 TFLOPS FP8 at peak.
What is the power consumption of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 has a TDP (Thermal Design Power) rating of 200 watts.
How much memory does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 have?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is equipped with 12 GB of VRAM with 504 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
What architecture is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 based on?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, launched in 2023.
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