NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR5X

Memory

2560

Cores

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce GTX 1080

N/A May 2016 View Details

nvidia

Brand

8GB GDDR6

Memory

5888

Cores

448 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3070

N/A Aug 2020 View Details

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

8GB GDDR5X 180W N/A May 2016

GeForce GTX 1080

$599 • May 2016

GeForce RTX 3070

$499 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8GB GDDR6 220W N/A Aug 2020

Specs Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Memory Size	8 GB	8 GB
Memory Type	GDDR5X	GDDR6
TDP	180 W	220 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1733 MHz	1725 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	320.3 GB/s	448 GB/s
Process Size	16nm	8nm
Architecture	Pascal	Ampere
Shading Units	2560	5888
RT Cores	N/A	46
TMUs	160	184
ROPs	64	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Clock	1251 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	110.9 GPixel/s	165.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	320.3 GTexel/s	448 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	8.873 GFLOPS	20.31 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	2.00 MB	4.00 MB
Die Size	314 mm²	392 mm²
Transistors	7200 Million	17400 Million
Required PSU	450 W	550 W
Power Connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.1	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

7282

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

14126 (+94%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

63994

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

126195 (+97%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

89.1 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

170.2 FPS (+91%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

15572

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

22256 (+43%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (189 benchmarks)

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 3070 (+71%)

AVG 140 FPS

MIN 123 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 82 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+85%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 55 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+111%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 28 FPS

MIN 25 FPS

Winner

Loser

Scars Above

7.9 2023 • Action, Adventure • Mad Head Games

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3070 (+91%)

AVG 223 FPS

MIN 204 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 117 FPS

MIN 106 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3070 (+90%)

AVG 150 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1

GeForce RTX 3070 (+95%)

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sifu

8.7 2022 • Action, Indie • Sloclap

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+71%)

AVG 363 FPS

MIN 227 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 140 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+70%)

AVG 257 FPS

MIN 169 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 93 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+77%)

AVG 138 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 78 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Winner

Loser

Dying Light 2 Stay Human

8 2022 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Techland

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+96%)

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+111%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+156%)

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 16 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

Winner

Loser

Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem

8.6 2022 • Action, Adventure • Croteam, Timelock Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+41%)

AVG 123 FPS

MIN 109 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+64%)

AVG 110 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 67 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+56%)

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 56 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Winner

Loser

ICARUS

7.7 2021 • Action, Adventure, Simulation • RocketWerkz

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+91%)

AVG 86 FPS

MIN 72 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+89%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 42 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3070 (+83%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 15 FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

AVG 12 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Wins!

Based on 189 benchmarks across 61 games

Avg FPS

GeForce GTX 1080

+76.7%

106

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3070