NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1980 MHz vs 1260 MHz
  • Around 45% higher boost clock speed: 2475 MHz vs 1710 MHz
  • Around 16% higher texture fill rate: 554.4 GTexel/s vs 478.8 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 59% lower typical power consumption: 220 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1147 vs 1085
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 30154 vs 26655
  • Around 11% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 20945 vs 18842
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 Jan 2024 vs 11 Jan 2022
Core clock speed 1980 MHz vs 1260 MHz
Boost clock speed 2475 MHz vs 1710 MHz
Texture fill rate 554.4 GTexel/s vs 478.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 220 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1147 vs 1085
PassMark - G3D Mark 30154 vs 26655
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 20945 vs 18842

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 8960 vs 7168
Pipelines 8960 vs 7168

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1147
1085
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
30154
26655
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
20945
18842
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1147 1085
PassMark - G3D Mark 30154 26655
Geekbench - OpenCL 192708
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 20945 18842

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA102
Launch date 8 Jan 2024 11 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 14 16

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2475 MHz 1710 MHz
Core clock speed 1980 MHz 1260 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 7168 8960
Pixel fill rate 198.0 GPixel/s 164.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 554.4 GTexel/s 478.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 220 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 30.64 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 42 mm, 1.7 inches 40 mm, 1.6 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 285 mm, 11.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 504.2 GB/s 912.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6X GDDR6X