NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER vs NVIDIA Quadro GV100 Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The benchmark data shows a clear overall victory for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, which wins 8 of the 9 recorded head-to-head tests. The only exception is a striking Vulkan result where the Quadro GV100 dominates by a massive margin. In the Geekbench Vulkan test, the GV100 scores 139,526 against the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's 53,683, a delta of 159.9% in favor of the older card. This is the largest single-test gap recorded between the two, and it flips the expected hierarchy based on other workloads.

Away from Vulkan, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is consistently faster. Its most decisive victory comes in Passmark GPU Compute, where it scores 18,372 versus 9,069, a 50.6% advantage. This suggests the Ada Lovelace card handles general-purpose compute workloads with far greater efficiency. The gap narrows somewhat in DirectX 9, where the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER leads 360 to 207, a 42.5% margin. In DirectX 11, the newer card scores 278 against 168, a 39.6% lead, while in Passmark G3D it posts 31,811 versus 19,650, a 38.2% difference. The Geekbench OpenCL result also favors the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, with scores of 199,267 and 150,004 respectively, a 24.7% gap. Smaller but still consistent wins appear in DirectX 12 (119 vs 84, a 29.4% lead), DirectX 10 (181 vs 140, a 22.7% lead), and Passmark G2D (1,225 vs 836, a 31.8% lead).

The overall average benchmark scores reflect this pattern: the GV100 averages 35,520 points across all recorded tests, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER averages 31,087. The GV100's higher average is driven almost entirely by its outlier Vulkan result, which lifts its mean despite losing most individual tests. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER sits at the 76th percentile of all GPUs in the database, while the GV100 ranks at the 80th percentile, a reversal that underscores how the Vulkan score disproportionately boosts the older card's standing.

FAQ

Q: Which card wins in Vulkan performance?

A: The NVIDIA Quadro GV100 wins decisively, scoring 139,526 in Geekbench Vulkan against the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's 53,683, a 159.9% advantage. This is the only head-to-head test the GV100 wins.

Q: How does the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER perform in compute workloads?

A: It leads by a wide margin in Passmark GPU Compute, scoring 18,372 versus the GV100's 9,069, a 50.6% difference. This is the largest win for the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER in any recorded test.

Q: What is the average benchmark score for each card?

A: The GV100 has an average benchmark score of 35,520, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER averages 31,087. The GV100's average is higher due to its strong Vulkan result, despite losing 8 of 9 direct comparisons.

Q: Which card has a higher DirectX 12 score?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER scores 119 in Passmark DirectX 12, compared to the GV100's 84, a 29.4% advantage for the newer card.

Q: How do the two cards compare in OpenCL?

A: The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER leads in Geekbench OpenCL with 199,267 points, against the GV100's 150,004, a 24.7% gap in favor of the Ada Lovelace card.

Q: Are there any tests where the GV100 comes close to the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER?

A: The closest result is in Passmark DirectX 10, where the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER leads by 22.7% (181 vs 140). Every other RTX 4070 Ti SUPER win is larger than that, and the GV100's Vulkan victory is its only win overall.

Architecture Differences

The two cards represent distinct architectural generations from NVIDIA. The Quadro GV100 is built on the Volta architecture using the GV100 chip, fabricated on a 12 nm process at TSMC. It packs 21,100 million transistors onto an 815 mm² die, giving a transistor density of 25.9 million per square millimeter. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER uses the Ada Lovelace architecture with the AD103 chip, manufactured on a 5 nm process, also at TSMC. Its die is far smaller at 379 mm², yet it contains 45,900 million transistors, yielding a density of 121.1 million per square millimeter. This difference in process node and density is fundamental: the newer card crams more than twice the transistors into less than half the silicon area.

Memory architecture diverges sharply. The GV100 uses 32 GB of HBM2 on a 4096-bit bus, delivering 868.4 GB/s of bandwidth. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER uses 16 GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus, with 672.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The HBM2 implementation gives the older card a wider memory path and a bandwidth advantage, while the newer card relies on faster memory signaling. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER also includes 66 dedicated RT cores and 264 tensor cores, whereas the GV100 has no RT cores and 640 tensor cores. The tensor core counts differ in purpose: the Volta card emphasizes dense compute, while Ada Lovelace pairs tensor cores with ray tracing hardware.

Shader configuration also changes significantly. The GV100 has 5,120 shading units, 320 TMUs, and 128 ROPs. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has 8,448 shading units, 264 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. The newer card has more shaders but fewer texture units and ROPs, reflecting a different balance of workloads. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), while the GV100 supports DirectX 12 (12_1). Both cards support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4, but the feature set under DirectX differs, with the Ada card meeting the latest Ultimate specification.

Specification Differences

The clock speeds differ substantially. The GV100 runs at a base clock of 1132 MHz and a boost clock of 1627 MHz. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER runs at 2340 MHz base and 2610 MHz boost, which are significantly higher frequencies. Memory clocks also differ: the GV100's memory operates at 848 MHz (1696 Mbps effective), while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's memory runs at 1313 MHz (21 Gbps effective). The peak theoretical performance figures follow these clocks. The GV100 delivers 16.66 TFLOPS of FP32 and 33.32 TFLOPS of FP16 (2:1 ratio). The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER delivers 44.10 TFLOPS of FP32 and 44.10 TFLOPS of FP16 (1:1 ratio), meaning the newer card has equal FP16 and FP32 throughput.

The physical specifications differ as well. The GV100 is a dual-slot card measuring 267 mm in length and 111 mm in height, with a single 8-pin power connector. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is a triple-slot card measuring 310 mm in length, 140 mm in height, and 61 mm in width, with a single 16-pin power connector. Both cards have a suggested PSU of 600 W, but the TDP differs: the GV100 is rated at 250 W, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is rated at 285 W. The bus interface also differs, with the GV100 using PCIe 3.0 x16 and the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER using PCIe 4.0 x16. Display outputs are similar but not identical: the GV100 has 4x DisplayPort 1.4a, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has 1x HDMI 2.1 and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a.

The Verdict

The data indicates that the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the stronger all-around performer, winning 8 of 9 benchmark tests with margins that range from 22.7% to 50.6%. Its compute advantage is particularly pronounced, and its DirectX scores across all versions are uniformly higher. The GV100 retains one significant niche: Vulkan performance, where its 159.9% lead is the single largest delta in the entire comparison. For users whose workloads rely heavily on Vulkan, the GV100 is clearly superior. For everything else, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is faster.

The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER also benefits from a more modern feature set, including DirectX 12 Ultimate support, which the GV100 lacks. Its higher boost clock and FP32 throughput (44.10 TFLOPS vs 16.66 TFLOPS) indicate a fundamentally more capable compute engine. The GV100's advantages are narrower: more memory (32 GB vs 16 GB), higher memory bandwidth (868.4 GB/s vs 672.3 GB/s), and a wider memory bus (4096-bit vs 256-bit). These factors matter for specific large-memory workloads, but they do not translate into benchmark wins in the recorded tests.

The percentile rankings reinforce this split. The GV100 sits at the 80th percentile of all GPUs, while the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER sits at the 76th percentile. This is a counterintuitive result given the head-to-head record, but it is explained by the GV100's Vulkan outlier and the different pools of competing GPUs in the database. The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's nearest rivals include the TITAN RTX and RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell, while the GV100's nearest rivals include the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile and the Radeon Pro Duo. Neither card dominates its peer group, but the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is clearly the better choice for standard graphics and compute work.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER wins across the board in DirectX workloads, including DirectX 9, 10, 11, and 12. It also wins in OpenCL, Passmark G2D, Passmark G3D, and Passmark GPU Compute. Its strongest relative performance is in compute, where the 50.6% lead over the GV100 indicates a major advantage for tasks like rendering, simulation, or any compute-heavy application that uses OpenCL or general-purpose GPU processing. The newer card's higher FP32 throughput and better compute scores make it the default pick for most professional and consumer workloads.

The GV100's only clear victory is in Vulkan, where its 159.9% margin dwarfs any other result in the comparison. This makes it the preferred option for applications that are heavily optimized for Vulkan, such as certain game engines or scientific visualization tools that leverage this API. Additionally, the GV100's 32 GB of memory and 868.4 GB/s bandwidth could be relevant for datasets that exceed the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's 16 GB capacity, even though no benchmark in the recorded data directly tests such scenarios. The older card also has a longer physical footprint in terms of memory bus width, which may appeal to specific compute tasks that favor memory parallelism.

For users running a mix of DirectX, OpenCL, and compute workloads, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the clear winner based on the recorded data. For users whose primary API is Vulkan, the GV100 offers a decisive performance edge that no other test in the database can match. The choice comes down to workload specialization: the newer card excels in general-purpose performance, while the older card remains a specialist in Vulkan and large-memory scenarios.