EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and has 2560 texture shaders and 20 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, which has 5888 shaders and 46 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip GA104-300-A1
Pascal Architecture Ampere
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
2560 Shader 5888
64 Render Output Units 96
160 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR6
1.251 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
10.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
320 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING clocks in the base with up to 1.721 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G is 1.500 GHz.

1.721 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.860 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING is 180 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G has a TDP of 220 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

180 W TDP 220 W
-- TDP (up) 250 W
94 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 42-44 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 3x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING is 267 mm long, 129 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G is 290 mm long, 131 mm high and 60 mm wide.

267 mm Length 290 mm
129 mm Height 131 mm
-- Width 60 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING was released in Q2/2016 at a price of 599 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3070 Master 8G was introduced in Q4/2020 at a price of 779 $.

08G-P4-6286-KR Part-no GV-N3070AORUS M-8GD
Q2/2016 Release date Q4/2020
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 779 $
16 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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