GeForce RTX 4080 vs GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (2505MHz vs 2475MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (200W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4080
+67%
48740
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29150
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Aug 2024
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2205 MHz
Base Clock
1920 MHz
2505 MHz
Boost Clock
2475 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
2500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
716.8GB/s
Bandwidth
480.0GB/s
Render Config
76
SM Count
46
9728
Shading Units
5888
304
TMUs
184
112
ROPs
64
304
Tensor Cores
184
76
RT Cores
46
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
36 MB
Theoretical Performance
280.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
761.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
455.4 GTexel/s
48.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.15 TFLOPS
48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.15 TFLOPS
761.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
455.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
200W
700 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD103
GPU Name
AD104
AD103-300-A1
GPU Variant
AD104-2XX-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
45.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
379 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
8.9
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
