GeForce RTX 4070 vs GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

GeForce RTX 4070
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR6XDESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce RTX 4070
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 20 Apr 2017
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 4070

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

105 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 4070 .
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 4070

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 4070

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 4070GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU NameAD104 (AD104)vsGP104 (GP104-410-A1)
Fab Process4 nmvs16 nm
Die Size295 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors35,800 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders7680vs2560
Tensor Cores240vsnone
Raytracing Cores60vsnone
Compute Units60vs20
Core clock2310 MHzvs1607 MHz
ROPs80vs64
TMUs240vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 4070GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Memory TypeGDDR6XvsGDDR5X
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1325 MHz
21.2 Gbps effective
vs1376 MHz
11008 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 4070GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
TDP285 wattsvs180 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs20 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 4070
    208.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    110.90 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 4070
    626.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    277.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 4070
    508.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    352.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 4070
    40090.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    8873.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better