NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 320W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (1710MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
7040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080
+659%
29.77 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce RTX 3080
+384%
17662
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce RTX 3080
+427%
8879
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce RTX 3080
+426%
79
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce RTX 3080
+363%
139
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce RTX 3080
+352%
181
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce RTX 3080
+119%
92
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce RTX 3080
+220%
141
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce RTX 3080
+75%
172
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2020
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
10GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
68
1664
Shading Units
8704
104
TMUs
272
56
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
272
-
RT Cores
68
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
5 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
320W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA102
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
398 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
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
