NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 1299.99
$ 566.99
$ 733.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19480 points
48% significantly better overall score
13092 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

480 FPS
175 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
305 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

226 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
156 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

334 FPS
107 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
227 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

183 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
124 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6585 points
25% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
5256 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8733.11 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
6174.82 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

241464 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
188870 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

217807 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
181089 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2025 MHz
2325 MHz
14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2375 MHz
2512 MHz
5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

678.4 GB/s
0.95% slightly higher memory bandwidth
672 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

420 W
250 W
68% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

228 Gigapixels/s
13% slightly higher pixel rate
201 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

760 Gigatexels/s
57% significantly higher texture rate
482.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
66% significantly more shading units
6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
66% significantly more texture mapping units
192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
20% slightly more render output processors
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

9th of 586
28th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
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 4080 vs GeForce RTX 5070 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5070 in our tests.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 5070.

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