NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 176.95 significantly less expensive

$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

12174 points

148% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

289 FPS

195 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

141 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

206 FPS

144 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

114 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

95% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

5402.96 points

790% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

168368 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

158623 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

2190 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2430 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

360 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

66% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

75% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

292% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

7168

180% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

224

40% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2023 April

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 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080.