NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2475MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +228%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +136%

17853

GeForce GTX 1080

7536

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

20

5888

Shading Units

2560

184

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

180W

550 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 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GP104

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

16 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

294 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

8.9

CUDA

6.1

6.8

Shader Model

6.4

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