NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Specifications of GPUs

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of the characteristics and performance of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti video cards. This comparison will help you determine which one best suits your needs.

Basic

Label Name
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Launch Date
May 2021
January 2023
Platform
Desktop
Desktop
Model Name
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 40
Base Clock
1365MHz
2310MHz
Boost Clock
1665MHz
2610MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
10240
7680
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
80
60
Transistors
28,300 million
35,800 million
RT Cores
80
60
Tensor Cores
?
Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.
320
240
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
320
240
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6MB
48MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
4 nm
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
TDP
350W
285W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
12GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
384bit
192bit
Memory Clock
1188MHz
1313MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
912.4 GB/s
504.2 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
186.5 GPixel/s
208.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
532.8 GTexel/s
626.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
34.10 TFLOPS
40.09 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
532.8 GFLOPS
626.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
32.753 TFlops
40.078 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.9
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 16-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
112
80
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
Suggested PSU
750W
600W

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
  • More Shading Units: 10240 (10240 vs 7680)
  • Higher Bandwidth: 912.4 GB/s (912.4 GB/s vs 504.2 GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
  • Higher Boost Clock: 2610MHz (1665MHz vs 2610MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: January 2023 (May 2021 vs January 2023)

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
94 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+9% 102 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
156 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+28% 200 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
191 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+52% 290 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+20% 65 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
54 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
79 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+48% 117 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
112 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+37% 153 Fps

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
114 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+11% 126 Fps

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
190 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+1% 192 Fps

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+2% 199 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
196 Fps

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
104 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+64% 171 Fps

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
153 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+13% 173 Fps

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+2% 190 Fps
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
186 Fps

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
32.753 TFlops
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+22% 40.078 TFlops

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
19618
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+18% 23191

Vulkan

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
166398
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+6% 176405

OpenCL

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
191319
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
+8% 206630

SiliconCat Rating

43
Ranks 43 among Desktop GPU on our website
77
Ranks 77 among all GPU on our website
33
Ranks 33 among Desktop GPU on our website
62
Ranks 62 among all GPU on our website
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

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