NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (35W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1545MHz vs 1230MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB +67%

18.98 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

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GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1230 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

48

4608

Shading Units

6144

144

TMUs

192

48

ROPs

96

144

Tensor Cores

192

36

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

177.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

11.34 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

177.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

296.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

115W

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Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

GA104

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

GA104-775-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

392 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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