GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and RTX A2000 12 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1070 SLI

RTX A2000 12 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Pascal GP104 SLI

GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

August 2016

November 2021

Interface

-

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1683 MHz

1200 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

14400 Million

12,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3840

3328

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

70 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

124.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2x 8 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

12 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

-

288.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

-

4x mini-DisplayPort

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12_1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

-

3.0

OpenGL

-

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.6

Vulkan

+

1.3

VR Ready

+

-