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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 leads on 7 of 8 shared benchmarks (41% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme); the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation takes 1 (7% in PassMark G2D Mark). On llama3.1:8b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 generates 73.7 tokens/s (per Patrick Hughes (bmdpat.com)) against 58.6 for the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation (per Hardware-Corner), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation. 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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Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
vram gb 820
vram type GDDR6—
tdp w 220—
cuda cores 5888—

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Jisaku Hibi, KitGuru, DigiStatement, Guru3D, 3DMark, VideoCardz, TopCPU.net, UL Benchmarks and technical.city; 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 3070RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: Jisaku Hibi		 —28,799 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: KitGuru, DigiStatement, Jisaku Hibi		 17,115 points13,376 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better)
Source: Guru3D, Jisaku Hibi		 8,749 points6,358 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: KitGuru, DigiStatement, 3DMark, Jisaku Hibi, VideoCardz		 8,324 points6,420 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark, TopCPU.net		 3,421 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks		 3,181 points2,206 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12 Graphics Score) (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks		 —2,206 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12) graphics score (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 3,182 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad Graphics (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks		 3,180 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: KitGuru, 3DMark, DigiStatement, Jisaku Hibi, VideoCardz		 13,997 points12,297 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: KitGuru, DigiStatement, Jisaku Hibi		 6,907 points4,882 points
Geekbench 5 OpenCL (higher is better)
Source: technical.city		 —124,926 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

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RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 leads on 7 of 8 shared benchmarks (41% in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme); the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation takes 1 (7% in PassMark G2D Mark).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama3.1:8b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 generates 73.7 tokens/s (per Patrick Hughes (bmdpat.com)) against 58.6 for the RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation (per Hardware-Corner), best community run on file for each.

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