NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Price

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$ 559.30

$ 740.69 significantly less expensive

$ 1299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

19480 points

140% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

480 FPS

283 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

226 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

334 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

183 FPS

106 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

169 FPS

170 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Apex Legends FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

79 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

73 FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

77 FPS

127 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

62 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

42 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

83 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

94 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

82 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

61 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

86 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

131 FPS

139 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

83 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Metro Exodus FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

71 FPS

72 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Metro Exodus FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points

107% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6585 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

8733.11 points

158% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

241464 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

217807 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

2025 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

2375 MHz

37% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

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

678.4 GB/s

51% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

90% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

139% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

10240

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

320

73% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 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 4080 at 420 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 4080 over the GeForce RTX 3070.

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