NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 and a Mobile platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 154% (2475MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 352.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +386%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

5.99 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +108%

17861

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

8581

Blender

GeForce RTX 4070 +137%

6026

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

2540

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4070 +211%

642

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

206

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Apr 2020

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

3072

184

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

384

46

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

36 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.2 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.98 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.990 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

187.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

TU104

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

N18E-G3R

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

80W

550 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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