NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1299.99

$ 541.95

$ 758.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points

60% significantly better overall score

12174 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS

191 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

289 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS

127 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

206 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

114 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

170 FPS

30 FPS slightly higher Apex Legends FPS

140 FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

127 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

117 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

42 FPS

66 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

83 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher ELDEN RING FPS

59 FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

82 FPS

135 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

61 FPS

226 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

81 FPS

115 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

86 FPS

95 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

80 FPS

106 FPS

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

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

97 FPS

118 FPS

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

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6585 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3862 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

5402.96 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

168368 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

158623 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz

2190 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz

2430 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

12 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

60% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W

300 W

40% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s

17% slightly higher pixel rate

194.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s

39% slightly higher texture rate

544.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

48.64 TFLOPS

39% slightly better floating point performance

34.84 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

42% many more shading units

7168

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

42% many 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

9th of 586

31st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 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 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 is better than the GeForce RTX 4070.