NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1770MHz vs 1733MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +145%

21.75 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +98%

14963

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +118%

70

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +101%

125

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

99

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +79%

178

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +63%

85

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

97

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +50%

146

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +46%

188

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +37%

77

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +54%

114

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +6%

164

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1575 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

48

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

6144

160

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA104

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-400-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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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