GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 4070 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q

GeForce RTX 4070

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GN20-E7 GA104

AD104

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2021

April 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1245 MHz

2475 MHz

Core clock speed

780 MHz

1920 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

17,400 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6144

5888

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

239.0

455.4

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

16 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

504.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2

1.3