NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 541.95
$ 577.25 significantly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points
24070 points
97% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS
559 FPS
270 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
276 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS
406 FPS
199 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS
225 FPS
111 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points
8762 points
126% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points
9133.30 points
69% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points
267906 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points
257198 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz
2295 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz
2617 MHz
7% slightly higher boost clock speed

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
960 GB/s
166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
20% slightly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
50% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
61% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
61% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168
10752
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224
336
49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
112
40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586
4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce RTX 5080 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the GeForce RTX 4070 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce RTX 4070.

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