EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming and the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and has 5888 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which has 3072 shaders and 48 execution units.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
GA104-300-A1 GPU Chip TU104
Ampere Architecture Turing
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 48
5888 Shader 3072
96 Render Output Units 64
184 Texture Units 192
46 Raytracing Cores 48

Memory

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 496 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.938 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.5 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 496 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X is 1.650 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.650 GHz
1.725 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.82 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming is 220 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

220 W TDP 250 W
240 W TDP (up) 280 W
93 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 120 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
41-43 dB Noise (Load) 0 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 RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED MSI Mystic Light

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
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming is 285 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X is 268 mm long, 114 mm high and 41 mm wide.

285 mm Length 268 mm
111 mm Height 114 mm
-- Width 41 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1370 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black Gaming was released in Q4/2020 at a price of 629 $.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Sea Hawk X was introduced in Q3/2019 at a price of 929 $.

08G-P5-3751-KR Part-no --
Q4/2020 Release date Q3/2019
629 $ Launch Price 929 $
8 nm Structure size 12 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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