NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jun 2017
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1379 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
70
16
Shading Units
8960
2048
TMUs
280
128
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
280
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RT Cores
70
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
88.26 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
176.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
88.26 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
176.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GP104
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
N17E-G2-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Pascal
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
16 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
115W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.6
6.1
Shader Model
6.8
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.