NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition and the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and has 6144 texture shaders and 48 execution units.

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which has 4352 shaders and 68 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GA104-400-A1 GPU Chip TU102
Ampere Architecture Turing
48 Streaming Multiprocessors 68
6144 Shader 4352
96 Render Output Units 88
192 Texture Units 272
48 Raytracing Cores 68

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 608 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z can access 11 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 616 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 11 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
608 GB/s Memory bandwidth 616 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.580 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is 1.350 GHz.

1.580 GHz Base Clock 1.350 GHz
1.770 GHz Boost Clock 1.770 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.55 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition is 290 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z has a TDP of 350 W and is supplied with the required energy via 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

290 W TDP 350 W
-- TDP (up) 380 W
93 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 43-44 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z 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 --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z 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 No LED lighting

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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition is 267 mm long, 112 mm high and 42 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z is 328 mm long, 143 mm high and 63 mm wide.

267 mm Length 328 mm
112 mm Height 143 mm
42 mm Width 63 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1852 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition was released in Q2/2021 at a price of 599 $.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z was introduced in Q3/2018 at a price of 1,649 $.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2021 Release date Q3/2018
599 $ Launch Price 1,649 $
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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