NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR)
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 LHR (Ampere) and has 10 GB GDDR6X graphics memory with a bandwidth of 760 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR (Ampere) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) has the GA102-202-K1-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ampere architecture.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is based on the graphics chip GA104-302-A1, which comes from the Ampere architecture.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 LHR Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LHR
GA102-202-K1-A1 GPU Chip GA104-302-A1
Ampere Architecture Ampere
68 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
8704 Shader 5888
96 Render Output Units 96
272 Texture Units 184
68 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) clocks at 1.188 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 19.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

10 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
760 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.440 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.710 GHz Boost Clock 1.725 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 320 W.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 220 W.

320 W TDP 220 W
370 W TDP (up) 240 W
93 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 85 mm Fan 1 2 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
43 dB Noise (Load) 37 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

285 mm Length 242 mm
110 mm Height 112 mm
-- Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1350 g Weight 1034 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition (LHR) has been manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers since Q3/2021.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition (LHR) came on the market in Q3/2021 and will have a structure width of 8 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2021 Release date Q3/2021
699 $ Launch Price 499 $
8 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)

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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