GeForce RTX 3070 and Arc 7 A780 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3070

Arc 7 A780

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Generation 12.7 (2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA104

DG2-512

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

2x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1725 MHz

2200 MHz

Core clock speed

1500 MHz

-

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

21,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

5888

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

317.4

563.2

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

17.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

559.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

+

+

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.5

-

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.6

Vulkan

1.2

1.3