NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (200W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +2%

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

17853

GeForce RTX 3080

17753

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

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GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Aug 2024

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

480.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

46

SM Count

68

5888

Shading Units

8704

184

TMUs

272

64

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

272

46

RT Cores

68

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

320W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA102

AD104-2XX-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

628 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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