NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2018
Sep 2020
Generation
GeForce 20
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1410 MHz
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
1620 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
10GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256bit
320bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
760.3GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
36
68
Shading Units
2304
8704
TMUs
144
272
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
288
272
RT Cores
36
68
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
5 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
103.7 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
233.3 GTexel/s
465.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
14.93 TFLOPS
29.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.465 TFLOPS
29.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
233.3 GFLOPS
465.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU106
GA102
GPU Variant
TU106-400A-A1
GA102-200-KD-A1
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
10.8 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
445 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
320W
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.02x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.6
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
9,088
17,662
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
4,309
8,879