NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1725MHz vs 1650MHz)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +33%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

15.21 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1410 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

4608

184

TMUs

288

96

ROPs

96

184

Tensor Cores

576

46

RT Cores

72

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

475.2 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.41 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.21 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

475.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

TU102

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU102-350-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

754 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-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

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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