NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1710MHz vs 1683MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)
7040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+374%
30.64 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
6078
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+206%
18647
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
2825
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+233%
9411
Blender
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
657
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+743%
5543
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
115
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+383%
556
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1683 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
70
1920
Shading Units
8960
120
TMUs
280
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
280
-
RT Cores
70
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
350W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA102
GP104-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
