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GTX 1070 vs RTX 4070

Nvidia GTX 1070 vs Nvidia RTX 4070

Two Nvidia consumer GPUs, one Pascal and one Ada Lovelace: 8 GB GDDR5 against 12 GB GDDR6X and 97% more memory bandwidth on the RTX 4070.

At a glance

Updated 7 minutes ago

Nvidia GTX 1070

Memory: 8 GB; GDDR5
Memory bandwidth: 256 GB/s
From: $0.04 /GPU/hr; 1 provider

Nvidia RTX 4070

Memory: 12 GB; GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth: 504 GB/s
From: $0.17 /GPU/hr; 2 providers

Price comparison

Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.

Billing	GTX 1070	RTX 4070	Difference
On-demand	$0.04	$0.17	4.2x more expensive on RTX 4070
Spot	$0.02	$0.07	3.5x more expensive on RTX 4070
Median	$0.04	$0.21	5.3x more expensive on RTX 4070

Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Price history

GTX 1070 vs RTX 4070 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	GTX 1070	RTX 4070	Difference
Memory
Capacity	8 GB GDDR5	12 GB GDDR6X	1.5x more on RTX 4070
Bandwidth	256 GB/s	504 GB/s	2x higher on RTX 4070
Bus width	256-bit	192-bit	1.3x wider on GTX 1070
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	116.6 TFLOPS	RTX 4070 only
FP16 / BF16		58.3 TFLOPS
INT8	Not supported	233.2 TOPS	RTX 4070 only
FP32	6.5 TFLOPS	29.1 TFLOPS	4.5x higher on RTX 4070
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	150 W	200 W	1.3x higher on RTX 4070
Released	Q2 2016	Q2 2023	7 years newer on RTX 4070
Precision
Supported formats	FP16FP32	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: GTX 1070 datasheet and RTX 4070 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.

Provider	GTX 1070 /GPU/hr	RTX 4070 /GPU/hr
Salad	On-Demand $0.0400	On-Demand $0.22
Theta EdgeCloud	--	On-Demand $0.17

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Our data for Nvidia GTX 1070 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia RTX 4070 on Sept. 7, 2026.