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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 18% to 36%, including 30% in 3DMark Time Spy (14,354 vs 11,079). On llama3.1:8b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti generates 102.1 tokens/s (per GPU Battle) against 76.0 for the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB (per Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB. Both released in 2021. MSRP range: $599 · $1,000. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiNVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB
vram gb 816
vram type GDDR6X—
tdp w 290140
cuda cores 61446144

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Digital Trends, Beebom, HWBOT, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic, TopCPU.net, GPU-Monkey and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiNVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: Digital Trends		 26,516 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: Beebom, HWBOT		 8,717 points7,380 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck, HWBOT		 3,710 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: HWBOT, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic		 3,552 points2,613 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 15,570 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: Beebom, TopCPU.net, Digital Trends, HWBOT, CpuTronic		 14,354 points11,079 points
3DMark Time Spy (graphics) (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 —10,968 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: Beebom		 7,526 points—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (graphics) (higher is better)
Source: GPU-Monkey		 —5,299 points
3DMark Time Spy Graphics (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 14,931 points—
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 1,061 pts—
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 23,253 pts19,365 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti or the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB on all 4 shared benchmarks on file, by 18% to 36%, including 30% in 3DMark Time Spy (14,354 vs 11,079).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama3.1:8b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti generates 102.1 tokens/s (per GPU Battle) against 76.0 for the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB (per Trooper.AI GPU benchmarks), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti launched at a $599 MSRP and the NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB at $1,000. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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