NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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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Price

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$ 367.70
$ 191.60 significantly less expensive
$ 559.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points
8113 points
14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS
197 FPS
36 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
96 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS
140 FPS
26 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS
77 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points
13651 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points
3380.77 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612 points
149734 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points
135064 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points
99979 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points
128209 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points
121057 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed
1500 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
1725 MHz
0.88% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

448 GB/s
Identical
448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
220 W
13% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s
165.6 Gigapixels/s
51% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s
317.4 Gigatexels/s
0.89% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS
20.31 TFLOPS
101% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944
5888
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
Identical
184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
96
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586
53rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September
2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 3070 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 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 3070 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, 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 RTX 3070 has a slightly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3070 over the GeForce RTX 2080.

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