NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1725MHz vs 1710MHz)

2944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +101%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +24%

13637

GeForce RTX 2080

10952

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +15%

53

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +11%

95

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +13%

144

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +17%

46

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +19%

56

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +22%

82

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +28%

81

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +23%

141

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +18%

188

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070

69

GeForce RTX 2080 +53%

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070

105

GeForce RTX 2080 +2%

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070

159

GeForce RTX 2080 +13%

180

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2944

184

TMUs

184

96

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

368

46

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU104

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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