NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (2617MHz vs 2512MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 672.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 360W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5080
+82%
56.28 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5070
30.87 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5080
+46%
33116
GeForce RTX 5070
22544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5080
+54%
16627
GeForce RTX 5070
10789
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5080
+57%
9296
GeForce RTX 5070
5896
Blender
GeForce RTX 5080
+48%
9152
GeForce RTX 5070
6182
Graphics Card
Jan 2025
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2295 MHz
Base Clock
2325 MHz
2617 MHz
Boost Clock
2512 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
960.0GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
84
SM Count
48
10752
Shading Units
6144
336
TMUs
192
112
ROPs
80
336
Tensor Cores
192
84
RT Cores
48
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
293.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.0 GPixel/s
879.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
482.3 GTexel/s
56.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.87 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.87 TFLOPS
879.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
482.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
360W
TDP
250W
750 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GB203
GPU Name
GB205
GB203-400-A1
GPU Variant
GB205-300-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
45.6 billion
Transistors
31.1 billion
378 mm²
Die Size
263 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.4
10.1
CUDA
10.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
