NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 541.95

$ 208.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11655 points

12174 points

4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

282 FPS

289 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

Identical

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

206 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

114 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

356% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

5402.96 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168368 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

0.02% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

158623 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

2190 MHz

52% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2430 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

12 GiB

20% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

111% significantly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

300 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

194.4 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

544.3 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

34.84 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

21% slightly more shading units

7168

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

21% slightly more texture mapping units

224

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 597

31st of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4070 specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 4070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4070 has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 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 4070 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 4070 over the GeForce RTX 3080.