NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2520MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 +166%

54.19 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 5080

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

973.8GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

84

5888

Shading Units

10752

184

TMUs

336

96

ROPs

128

184

Tensor Cores

336

46

RT Cores

84

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

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Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

322.6 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

846.7 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

54.19 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

54.19 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

846.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GB203

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB203-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

377 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

8.6

CUDA

10.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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