NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1710MHz)
Lower TDP (200W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 480.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
29.15 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+5%
30.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1260 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
70
5888
Shading Units
8960
184
TMUs
280
64
ROPs
96
184
Tensor Cores
280
46
RT Cores
70
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
350W
550 W
Suggested PSU
750 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
GA102-220-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
6.8
