NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 RTX 2070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1710MHz vs 1620MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +310%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070

8863

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +112%

18801

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

37

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +137%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

68

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +122%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

98

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +94%

191

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

32

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +90%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

37

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +94%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

55

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +92%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

54

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +101%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

96

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +91%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +54%

198

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

86

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +9%

94

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

90

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +57%

142

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070 +3%

178

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

172

GeForce RTX 2070

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

8960

144

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

96

288

Tensor Cores

280

36

RT Cores

70

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA102

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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