NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 608.3GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1770MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (290W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +36%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB GA102

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

6144

272

TMUs

192

96

ROPs

96

272

Tensor Cores

192

68

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-150-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

290W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

4

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000

6

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

7

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

8

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

9

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

10

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling