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