GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and A30 PCIe - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

A30 PCIe

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GN20-E5 GA104

GA100

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1290 MHz

1440 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5120

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

165 Watt

Texture fill rate

237.4

322.6

Memory type

GDDR6

HBM2

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

3072 Bit

Memory clock speed

12 GB/s

2.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

933.1 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

8.6

8.0

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

N/A