NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition and the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and has 2944 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, which has 5888 shaders and 46 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition GPU GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
TU104 GPU Chip GA104-300-A1
Turing Architecture Ampere
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
2944 Shader 5888
64 Render Output Units 96
184 Texture Units 184
46 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 496 GB/s.

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

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

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.515 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G is 1.500 GHz.

1.515 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.800 GHz Boost Clock 1.725 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 225 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G has a TDP of 240 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

225 W TDP 240 W
250 W TDP (up) 250 W
88 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

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

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
35 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
41 dB Noise (Load) 42-43 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition.

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

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

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

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 267 mm long, 116 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G is 282 mm long, 115 mm high and 41 mm wide.

267 mm Length 282 mm
116 mm Height 115 mm
-- Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 729 $.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G was introduced in Q4/2020 at a price of 659 $.

-- Part-no GV-N3070EAGLE-8GD
Q3/2018 Release date Q4/2020
729 $ Launch Price 659 $
12 nm Structure size 8 nm
-- 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)

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G
8 GB GDDR6
22 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Eagle 8G
8 GB GDDR6
98 fps (avg)

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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