NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 GTX 1070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1710MHz vs 1683MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.3GB/s)

7040 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +374%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1070

6065

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +209%

18777

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

26

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +238%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

50

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +202%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

77

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +148%

191

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

43

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +153%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

79

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +132%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

100

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +98%

198

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1070

48

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +95%

94

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1070

84

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +69%

142

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1070

148

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +16%

172

GeForce GTX 1070

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

1920

Shading Units

8960

120

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-200-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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