NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1665MHz vs 1620MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2070

7.465 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +356%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2070

8869

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +122%

19760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

37

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +148%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

68

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +125%

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

98

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +103%

199

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

32

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +106%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

37

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +108%

77

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

55

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +103%

112

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

54

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +111%

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

96

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +94%

187

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

128

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +55%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2070

86

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +18%

102

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2070

90

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +66%

150

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2070

178

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +4%

186

GeForce RTX 2070

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GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1620 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

80

-

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

10240

144

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

112

288

Tensor Cores

320

36

RT Cores

80

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

233.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

14.93 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

7.465 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

233.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

GA102

TU106-400A-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-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

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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