NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Price

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$ 960.29

$ 857.08

$ 103.21 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

50 %

74 %

47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS

181 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

92 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

63 FPS

132 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

65 FPS

72 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547

13548

79% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

613.39

3529.31

475% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531

149734

190% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640

135064

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552

99979

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47863

128916

169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

64389

119331

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1500 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

0.46% slightly higher boost clock speed

1725 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

448 GB/s

39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

22% slightly lower TDP

220 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

165.6 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

317.4 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

128% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

5888

129% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

49th of 557

24th of 557

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

May 2016

September 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 is better than the GeForce GTX 1080.