NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2475MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 +189%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4070 +62%

17865

GeForce RTX 2080

10966

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +78%

82

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +88%

160

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +101%

256

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +38%

54

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +97%

93

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +94%

130

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +55%

98

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +50%

172

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +26%

200

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4070 +35%

144

GeForce RTX 2080

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4070 +33%

144

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4070 +5%

190

GeForce RTX 2080

180

GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Apr 2023

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1920MHz

Base Clock

1515MHz

2475MHz

Boost Clock

1710MHz

1313MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

504.2 GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0 GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

2944

184

TMUs

184

64

ROPs

64

184

Tensor Cores

368

46

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

36MB

L2 Cache

4MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

455.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

29.15 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

29.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

455.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

TU104

AD104-250-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

35,800 million

Transistors

13,600 million

295mm²

Die Size

545mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

215W

550W

Suggested PSU

550W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 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

8.9

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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