NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5

Memory

1920

Cores

256.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1070

N/A Jun 2016 View Details

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nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

2944

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 2080

N/A Sep 2018 View Details

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

8GB GDDR5 150W N/A Jun 2016

GeForce GTX 1070

$379 • Jun 2016

GeForce RTX 2080

$699 • Sep 2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

8GB GDDR6 215W N/A Sep 2018

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR6
TDP	150 W	215 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1683 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	256.3 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	12nm
Architecture	Pascal	Turing
Shading Units	1920	2944
RT Cores	N/A	46
TMUs	120	184
ROPs	64	64
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	2002 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	107.7 GPixel/s	109.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	256.3 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	6.463 GFLOPS	10.07 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	545 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	13600 Million
Required PSU	450 W	550 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

5844

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

10843 (+86%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

53429

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

118637 (+122%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

75.4 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

128.3 FPS (+70%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

13504

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

18747 (+39%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (344 benchmarks)

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Background

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Barcelona, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Belgrade, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft India, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Philippines, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Shanghai

1080p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+65%)

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+72%)

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 18 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

2160p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+82%)

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 7 FPS

Winner

Loser

007 First Light

8 2026 • Action, Adventure • IO Interactive A/S

1080p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+72%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 25 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

1440p

| high

| Patch: v1.0 | Old Hardware

GeForce RTX 2080 (+81%)

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Background

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

8.7 2022 • Action, Adventure, Casual • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+71%)

AVG 118 FPS

MIN 107 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+78%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+78%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 23 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 (+75%)

AVG 168 FPS

MIN 152 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 (+72%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 2080 (+78%)

AVG 57 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+56%)

AVG 277 FPS

MIN 198 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 178 FPS

MIN 118 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+62%)

AVG 203 FPS

MIN 135 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 125 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+62%)

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 71 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

8 2022 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+60%)

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+79%)

AVG 52 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 2080 (+100%)

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

AVG 13 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Wins!

Based on 344 benchmarks across 108 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1070

+67%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 2080