NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1044.00
$ 555.77 significantly less expensive
$ 1599.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

74 %
110 %
48% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

181 FPS
268 FPS
87 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

92 FPS
138 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS
193 FPS
61 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

72 FPS
108 FPS
36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13548
17552
29% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3529.31
5024.89
42% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734
206390
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064
181771
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979
126138
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128916
174018
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

119331
158471
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed
1440 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
0.88% slightly higher boost clock speed
1710 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
10 GiB
25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
320 Bit
25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
760.3 GB/s
69% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
45% significantly lower TDP
320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
0.85% slightly higher pixel rate
164.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
465.1 Gigatexels/s
46% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS
29.77 TFLOPS
46% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
8704
47% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
272
47% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
Identical
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 363
14th of 363

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2020
September 2020

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 3070 vs GeForce RTX 3080 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 has a significantly lower TDP at 220 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 3080 is better than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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