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GeForce RTX 3070

Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 30 series · launched October 2020

Launch price
$499
≈ $638 in 2026 dollars
Blender 4.x render score
3,180
#25 of 103 scored graphics cards
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6 · 256-bit
Rated power
220 W

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Launch price in today's dollars

The GeForce RTX 3070 launched at $499 in 2020. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $638 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 28% rise over 6 years. At its launch price that is 637 Blender points per $100.

Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2020 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.

Blender rendering score

Median score 3,180 (middle half of runs 3,051–3,296) across 1,875 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #25 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #6 of 10 in the GeForce RTX 30 series.

This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.

Specifications

VendorNvidia
SeriesGeForce RTX 30 series
LaunchedOctober 2020
Launch price$499
ArchitectureAmpere
ChipGA104-300-A1
Memory8 GB
Memory typeGDDR6
Memory bus256-bit
Memory bandwidth448 GB/s
Core clock1,500 MHz (boost 1,725 MHz)
FP32 compute20.31 TFLOPS
Rated power220 W (TDP)
Transistors17.4 billion
Die size392.5 mm²
Bus interfacePCIe 4 x16
Tier70-class

The Nvidia 70-class over time

Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.

PartYearLaunch priceIn 2026 $Blender
GeForce GTX 5702010$349$530—
GeForce GTX 6702012$399$575—
GeForce GTX 7702013$329$467192
GeForce GTX 9702014$329$460257
GeForce GTX 10702016$379$523532
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti2017$399$539592
GeForce RTX 20702018$499$6582,111
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER2019$499$6462,251
GeForce RTX 30702020$499$6383,180
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti2021$599$7313,519
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti2023$799$8686,377
GeForce RTX 40702023$599$6515,258
GeForce RTX 4070 Super2024$599$6326,155
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super2024$799$8437,087
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti2025$749$7707,583
GeForce RTX 50702025$549$5646,174

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