NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 46% higher core clock speed: 2205 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 1683 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 16 nm

Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 4 December 2018
Core clock speed	2205 MHz vs 1506 MHz
Boost clock speed	2505 MHz vs 1683 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 16 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

2.1x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 320 Watt
5.7x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 320 Watt
Memory clock speed	8008 MHz vs 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
PassMark - G2D Mark	1236
PassMark - G3D Mark	34500
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6567
Geekbench - OpenCL	240557
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	722.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	72.795
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	272.641

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Pascal
Code name	AD103	GP104
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	4 December 2018
Place in performance rating	14	not rated
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2505 MHz	1683 MHz
Core clock speed	2205 MHz	1506 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	761.5 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	48.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	48.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines	9728
Pixel fill rate	280.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	761.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	320 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	45900 million	7,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot
Height	61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	310 mm, 12.2 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	1x 8-pin
Width	140 mm, 5.5 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	716.8 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective	8008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6X