NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +310%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +112%

18851

GeForce RTX 2070

8861

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +137%

88

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +122%

151

GeForce RTX 2070

68

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +94%

191

GeForce RTX 2070

98

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +90%

61

GeForce RTX 2070

32

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +94%

72

GeForce RTX 2070

37

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +92%

106

GeForce RTX 2070

55

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +101%

109

GeForce RTX 2070

54

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +91%

184

GeForce RTX 2070

96

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +54%

198

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +9%

94

GeForce RTX 2070

86

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +57%

142

GeForce RTX 2070

90

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

172

GeForce RTX 2070 +3%

178

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 2070

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1620 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

36

8960

Shading Units

2304

280

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

288

70

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.7 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

233.3 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.93 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.465 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

233.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU106

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

445 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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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