NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2505MHz vs 1725MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +139%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

9728

184

TMUs

304

96

ROPs

112

184

Tensor Cores

304

46

RT Cores

76

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD103

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

220W

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 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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