NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 659.00
$ 209.99 significantly less expensive
$ 868.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4840 points
14177 points
192% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

104 FPS
342 FPS
238 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

71 FPS
168 FPS
97 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

71 FPS
245 FPS
174 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

53 FPS
135 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9001 points
19628 points
118% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2206.17 points
5580.42 points
152% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

96024 points
235513 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

85818 points
209081 points
143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

73515 points
131975 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90905 points
191836 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84097 points
173043 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz
2% slightly higher core clock speed
1370 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1620 MHz
1665 MHz
2% 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
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
103% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

175 W
100% significantly lower TDP
350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

103.7 Gigapixels/s
186.5 Gigapixels/s
79% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

233.3 Gigatexels/s
532.8 Gigatexels/s
128% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.46 TFLOPS
34.1 TFLOPS
356% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
10240
344% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
320
122% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
112
75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 586
22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2070 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. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 has a significantly lower TDP at 175 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the GeForce RTX 2070.

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