NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 23.50 slightly less expensive

$ 773.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

16263 points

40% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

383 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

188 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

278 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

154 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

250% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5035 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

6656.46 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

205515 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

188957 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

2310 MHz

60% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2610 MHz

52% significantly 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

66% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

504.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

285 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

208.8 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

626.4 Gigatexels/s

34% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

40.09 TFLOPS

34% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

13% slightly more shading units

7680

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

13% slightly more texture mapping units

240

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 586

15th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

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 Ti comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 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 Ti also has a significantly 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 4070 Ti has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 285 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. 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 Ti over the GeForce RTX 3080.

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