NVIDIA A10 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA A10 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A10

  • Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 488.2 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
  • Around 57% higher pipelines: 9216 vs 5888
  • Around 90% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 285 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Texture fill rate 488.2 GTexel/s vs 480.2 GTexel/s
Pipelines 9216 vs 5888
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 285 Watt
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 885 MHz
  • Around 54% higher boost clock speed: 2610 MHz vs 1695 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1120 vs 1007
  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27022 vs 22064
  • Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 167630 vs 158724
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 12 Apr 2021
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 885 MHz
Boost clock speed 2610 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1120 vs 1007
PassMark - G3D Mark 27022 vs 22064
Geekbench - OpenCL 167630 vs 158724

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA A10
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1007
1120
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22064
27022
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
158724
167630
Name NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
PassMark - G2D Mark 1007 1120
PassMark - G3D Mark 22064 27022
Geekbench - OpenCL 158724 167630
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 17863
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 380.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 55.419
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 303.359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2470.261

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Code name GA102 AD104
Launch date 12 Apr 2021 2023
Place in performance rating 27 30

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 2610 MHz
Core clock speed 885 MHz 2310 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 4 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 976.3 GFLOPS (1:32) 480.2 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS (1:1) 30.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 31.24 TFLOPS 30.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9216 5888
Pixel fill rate 162.7 GPixel/s 167.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 488.2 GTexel/s 480.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 285 Watt
Transistor count 28300 million 35800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Single-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 140 mm, 5.5 inches
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 600.2 GB/s 504.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 192 bit
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X