Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 3080

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 3080 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3070
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+10 W)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+236 mm²)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+1.40 GPixel/s)
B GeForce RTX 3080
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+312 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + Transistors (M) (+10,900M)
  • + CUDA cores (+2816)
  • + TMUs (+88)
  • + RT cores (+22)
  • + Tensor cores (+88)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+9.46 TFLOPS)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+147.70 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+2.8)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+1711)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+1133)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+1716)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+43535)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+24194)
  • + Normalized score (+4.3)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3070
 Component B
GeForce RTX 3080
Release year 2021 2021
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Bandwidth (GB/s) 448 GB/s 760 GB/s (+312 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 256 bit 320 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 125 W (+10 W) 115 W
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 8 nm
Transistors (M) 17,400M 28,300M (+10,900M)
Die size (mm²) 392 mm² (+236 mm²) 628 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 5,888 8,704 (+2816)
TMUs 184 272 (+88)
ROPs 96 96
RT cores 46 68 (+22)
Tensor cores 184 272 (+88)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 20.31 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS (+9.46 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 165.60 GPixel/s (+1.40 GPixel/s) 164.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 317.40 GTexel/s 465.10 GTexel/s (+147.70 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 23.2 26.0 (+2.8)
PassMark (overall) 14,364 16,075 (+1711)
3DMark Time Spy 9,619 10,752 (+1133)
3DMark Fire Strike 25,478 27,194 (+1716)
Geekbench OpenCL 123,479 167,014 (+43535)
Geekbench Vulkan 120,982 145,176 (+24194)
Normalized score 78.5 82.8 (+4.3)

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3070 GeForce RTX 3080 Delta
007 First Light 58 FPS 53 FPS +9.4% (A)
A Plague Tale Requiem 56 FPS 59 FPS 5.4% (B)
ARC Raiders 92 FPS 89 FPS +3.4% (A)
Alan Wake 2 53 FPS 55 FPS 3.8% (B)
Alan Wake Remastered 79 FPS 95 FPS 20.3% (B)
Alone in the Dark 150 FPS 155 FPS 3.3% (B)
Anno 117: Pax Romana 56 FPS 55 FPS +1.8% (A)
Anno 1800 35 FPS 78 FPS 122.9% (B)
Apex Legends 143 FPS 144 FPS 0.7% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 101 FPS 89 FPS +13.5% (A)
Assassin's Creed Shadows 39 FPS 33 FPS +18.2% (A)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 63 FPS 72 FPS 14.3% (B)
Atlas Fallen 127 FPS 117 FPS +8.5% (A)
Atomic Heart 89 FPS 85 FPS +4.7% (A)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 61 FPS 60 FPS +1.7% (A)
Back 4 Blood 205 FPS 235 FPS 14.6% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 102 FPS 90 FPS +13.3% (A)
Battlefield 2042 96 FPS 100 FPS 4.2% (B)
Battlefield 5 120 FPS 130 FPS 8.3% (B)
Battlefield 6 81 FPS 78 FPS +3.8% (A)
Black Myth: Wukong 46 FPS 44 FPS +4.5% (A)
Borderlands 3 78 FPS 95 FPS 21.8% (B)
Borderlands 4 40 FPS 38 FPS +5.3% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 72 FPS 74 FPS 2.8% (B)
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War 82 FPS 89 FPS 8.5% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 90 FPS 106 FPS 17.8% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 101 FPS 94 FPS +7.4% (A)
Call of Duty Vanguard 118 FPS 125 FPS 5.9% (B)
Civilization 7 122 FPS 132 FPS 8.2% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 134 FPS 114 FPS +17.5% (A)
Control 70 FPS 82 FPS 17.1% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 241 FPS 212 FPS +13.7% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 194 FPS 169 FPS +14.8% (A)
Crimson Desert 54 FPS 56 FPS 3.7% (B)
Crysis Remastered 63 FPS 79 FPS 25.4% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 119 FPS 121 FPS 1.7% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 58 FPS 68 FPS 17.2% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 67 FPS 83 FPS 23.9% (B)
Days Gone 112 FPS 126 FPS 12.5% (B)
Dead Island 2 164 FPS 158 FPS +3.8% (A)
Dead Space Remake 73 FPS 73 FPS ≈
Death Stranding 74 FPS 84 FPS 13.5% (B)
Death Stranding 2 57 FPS 58 FPS 1.8% (B)
Deathloop 106 FPS 113 FPS 6.6% (B)
Diablo 4 159 FPS 181 FPS 13.8% (B)
Dirt 5 77 FPS 62 FPS +24.2% (A)
Doom Eternal 152 FPS 165 FPS 8.6% (B)
Doom: The Dark Ages 55 FPS 53 FPS +3.8% (A)
Dota 2 130 FPS 134 FPS 3.1% (B)
Dragon's Dogma 2 53 FPS 57 FPS 7.5% (B)
Dying Light 2 75 FPS 87 FPS 16% (B)
EA Sports FC 24 162 FPS 149 FPS +8.7% (A)
EA Sports WRC 91 FPS 88 FPS +3.4% (A)
Elden Ring 59 FPS 59 FPS ≈
Elex 2 87 FPS 88 FPS 1.1% (B)
Enshrouded 59 FPS 55 FPS +7.3% (A)
Escape from Tarkov 110 FPS 120 FPS 9.1% (B)
F1 2020 118 FPS 162 FPS 37.3% (B)
F1 2021 66 FPS 156 FPS 136.4% (B)
F1 22 171 FPS 195 FPS 14% (B)
F1 24 182 FPS 176 FPS +3.4% (A)
F1 25 138 FPS 150 FPS 8.7% (B)
FIFA 21 148 FPS 198 FPS 33.8% (B)
FIFA 22 272 FPS 273 FPS 0.4% (B)
FIFA 23 120 FPS 128 FPS 6.7% (B)
Far Cry 5 119 FPS 129 FPS 8.4% (B)
Far Cry 6 91 FPS 65 FPS +40% (A)
Far Cry New Dawn 80 FPS 68 FPS +17.6% (A)
Farming Simulator 22 139 FPS 165 FPS 18.7% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 28 FPS 56 FPS 100% (B)
Final Fantasy XVI 57 FPS 61 FPS 7% (B)
Fortnite 150 FPS 160 FPS 6.7% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 189 FPS 194 FPS 2.6% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 159 FPS 152 FPS +4.6% (A)
Forza Horizon 6 48 FPS 57 FPS 18.8% (B)
GRID 2019 83 FPS 113 FPS 36.1% (B)
GRID Legends 153 FPS 131 FPS +16.8% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 58 FPS 137 FPS 136.2% (B)
Gears Tactics 110 FPS 136 FPS 23.6% (B)
Ghost of Tsushima 75 FPS 71 FPS +5.6% (A)
Ghostwire Tokyo 160 FPS 149 FPS +7.4% (A)
God of War 88 FPS 91 FPS 3.4% (B)
God of War Ragnarök 91 FPS 95 FPS 4.4% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 111 FPS 124 FPS 11.7% (B)
Halo Infinite 94 FPS 101 FPS 7.4% (B)
Helldivers 2 91 FPS 86 FPS +5.8% (A)
High On Life 124 FPS 133 FPS 7.3% (B)
Hitman 3 121 FPS 131 FPS 8.3% (B)
Hogwarts Legacy 72 FPS 77 FPS 6.9% (B)
Horizon Forbidden West 63 FPS 63 FPS ≈
Horizon Zero Dawn 83 FPS 89 FPS 7.2% (B)
Hunt Showdown 98 FPS 110 FPS 12.2% (B)
Immortals Fenyx Rising 73 FPS 88 FPS 20.5% (B)
Immortals of Aveum 51 FPS 53 FPS 3.9% (B)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 63 FPS 69 FPS 9.5% (B)
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 69 FPS 75 FPS 8.7% (B)
Last Epoch 167 FPS 168 FPS 0.6% (B)
Lies of P 130 FPS 131 FPS 0.8% (B)
Lords of the Fallen 65 FPS 66 FPS 1.5% (B)
Mafia Definitive Edition 78 FPS 99 FPS 26.9% (B)
Metro Exodus 97 FPS 100 FPS 3.1% (B)
Monster Hunter Stories 2 143 FPS 144 FPS 0.7% (B)
Need for Speed Heat 66 FPS 94 FPS 42.4% (B)
Need for Speed Unbound 90 FPS 100 FPS 11.1% (B)
New World 82 FPS 75 FPS +9.3% (A)
Once Human 109 FPS 113 FPS 3.7% (B)
Outriders 94 FPS 109 FPS 16% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 103 FPS 97 FPS +6.2% (A)
Pragmata 69 FPS 67 FPS +3% (A)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 356 FPS 307 FPS +16% (A)
Rage 2 102 FPS 116 FPS 13.7% (B)
Rainbow Six Extraction 171 FPS 218 FPS 27.5% (B)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 67 FPS 82 FPS 22.4% (B)
Ready or Not 175 FPS 121 FPS +44.6% (A)
Red Dead Redemption 2 67 FPS 85 FPS 26.9% (B)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil Requiem 80 FPS 79 FPS +1.3% (A)
Resident Evil Village 136 FPS 155 FPS 14% (B)
Returnal 93 FPS 88 FPS +5.7% (A)
Riders Republic 106 FPS 113 FPS 6.6% (B)
Rise of the Tomb Raider 139 FPS 157 FPS 12.9% (B)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 38 FPS 36 FPS +5.6% (A)
Serious Sam 4 74 FPS 75 FPS 1.4% (B)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 88 FPS 165 FPS 87.5% (B)
Skull & Bones 84 FPS 73 FPS +15.1% (A)
Sons of the Forest 73 FPS 77 FPS 5.5% (B)
Space Marine 2 68 FPS 78 FPS 14.7% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 101 FPS 104 FPS 3% (B)
Stalker 2 53 FPS 43 FPS +23.3% (A)
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order 72 FPS 98 FPS 36.1% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 67 FPS 68 FPS 1.5% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 38 FPS 40 FPS 5.3% (B)
Star Wars Squadrons 180 FPS 198 FPS 10% (B)
Starfield 52 FPS 52 FPS ≈
The Callisto Protocol 79 FPS 87 FPS 10.1% (B)
The Division 2 85 FPS 105 FPS 23.5% (B)
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered 48 FPS 50 FPS 4.2% (B)
The Finals 161 FPS 152 FPS +5.9% (A)
The First Descendant 78 FPS 76 FPS +2.6% (A)
The Last of Us 72 FPS 76 FPS 5.6% (B)
The Outer Worlds 2 65 FPS 64 FPS +1.6% (A)
The Quarry 96 FPS 97 FPS 1% (B)
The Witcher 3 170 FPS 191 FPS 12.4% (B)
The Witcher 3 122 FPS 149 FPS 22.1% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 128 FPS 132 FPS 3.1% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 103 FPS 113 FPS 9.7% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 127 FPS 134 FPS 5.5% (B)
Total War: Three Kingdoms 101 FPS 108 FPS 6.9% (B)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 77 FPS 76 FPS +1.3% (A)
Valorant 210 FPS 220 FPS 4.8% (B)
Vampire Bloodhunt 226 FPS 238 FPS 5.3% (B)
Watch Dogs Legion 62 FPS 80 FPS 29% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 12 FPS 66 FPS 450% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 90 FPS 112 FPS 24.4% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3080 wins 16 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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