GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10070
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+189%
29150
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
46
2944
Shading Units
5888
184
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
184
46
RT Cores
46
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
AD104
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
7.5
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
