NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 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 4080

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 541.95

$ 758.04 significantly less expensive

$ 1299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

19461 points

59% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

478 FPS

190 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

225 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

334 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

182 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

140 FPS

170 FPS

30 FPS slightly higher Apex Legends FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

117 FPS

127 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

66 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

42 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

59 FPS

83 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher ELDEN RING FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

135 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

82 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

226 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

61 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

115 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

81 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

86 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

106 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

80 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

118 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

97 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

6585 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

8733.11 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

241464 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

217807 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

2025 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

2375 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

678.4 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

40% slightly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

39% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

10240

42% many more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

320

42% many more texture mapping units

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

31st of 599

9th of 599

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

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 4080 vs GeForce RTX 4070 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4080 has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 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 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 4070.