NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +374%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +210%

18851

GeForce GTX 1070

6067

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +238%

88

GeForce GTX 1070

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +202%

151

GeForce GTX 1070

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +148%

191

GeForce GTX 1070

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +153%

109

GeForce GTX 1070

43

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +132%

184

GeForce GTX 1070

79

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +98%

198

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +95%

94

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +69%

142

GeForce GTX 1070

84

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +16%

172

GeForce GTX 1070

148

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce GTX 1070

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1683 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

15

8960

Shading Units

1920

280

TMUs

120

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

107.7 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

202.0 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

101.0 GFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.463 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

202.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GP104

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-200-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

16 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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