Component comparison

GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

GeForce RTX 5070 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 5070
  • + Release year (+4)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+2,800M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+365 mm²)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+14.50 GPixel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+7.1)
  • + Normalized score (+3.2)
B GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
  • + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+240 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+192 bit)
  • + CUDA cores (+4096)
  • + TMUs (+128)
  • + ROPs (+32)
  • + RT cores (+32)
  • + Tensor cores (+128)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+3.23 TFLOPS)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+50.50 GTexel/s)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+7685)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+12164)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 5070
Component B
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Release year 2025 (+4) 2021
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 12 GB (+4 GB)
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6X
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 672 GB/s 912 GB/s (+240 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 192 bit 384 bit (+192 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 100 W —
Lithography (nm) 4 nm (-4 nm) 8 nm
Transistors (M) 31,100M (+2,800M) 28,300M
Die size (mm²) 263 mm² (+365 mm²) 628 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 6,144 10,240 (+4096)
TMUs 192 320 (+128)
ROPs 80 112 (+32)
RT cores 48 80 (+32)
Tensor cores 192 320 (+128)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 30.87 TFLOPS 34.10 TFLOPS (+3.23 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 201.00 GPixel/s (+14.50 GPixel/s) 186.50 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 482.30 GTexel/s 532.80 GTexel/s (+50.50 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 21.3 (+7.1) 14.2
PassMark (overall) 19,075 26,760 (+7685)
3DMark Time Spy — —
3DMark Fire Strike 34,949 47,113 (+12164)
Geekbench OpenCL — 209,081
Geekbench Vulkan — —
Normalized score 69.6 (+3.2) 66.3

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 5070 GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Delta
Battlefield 5 180 FPS 170 FPS +5.9% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Counter-Strike 2 300 FPS 300 FPS ≈
Cyberpunk 2077 170 FPS 219 FPS 28.8% (B)
Far Cry 5 322 FPS 208 FPS +54.8% (A)
Fortnite 300 FPS 300 FPS ≈
Forza Horizon 4 270 FPS 250 FPS +8% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 329 FPS 200 FPS +64.5% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Metro Exodus 170 FPS 172 FPS 1.2% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Resident Evil 4 Remake 210 FPS 190 FPS +10.5% (A)
The Witcher 3 436 FPS 372 FPS +17.2% (A)
Valorant 400 FPS 350 FPS +14.3% (A)

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

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti wins 12 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).