NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7890 points

7909 points

0.24% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

185 FPS

190 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

Identical

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS

137 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

76 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

3588.48 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

109744 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points

112405 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz

1395 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

1695 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

Identical

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

81.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s

21% slightly higher texture rate

244.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

18.98 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

15.62 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

33% slightly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

33% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

59th of 586

57th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop 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 Laptop 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, both the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop and the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop have an identical TDP. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.