NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and has 5888 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, which has 9728 shaders and 76 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
AD104-250-A1 GPU Chip AD103-300-A1
Ada Lovelace Architecture Ada Lovelace
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 76
5888 Shader 9728
64 Render Output Units 112
184 Texture Units 304
46 Raytracing Cores 76

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 504 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition can access 16 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 736 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6X
1.313 GHz Memory Clock 1.400 GHz
21.0 Gbps Memory Speed 22.4 Gbps
504 GB/s Memory bandwidth 736 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.920 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is 2.205 GHz.

1.920 GHz Base Clock 2.205 GHz
2.475 GHz Boost Clock 2.505 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 200 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 16-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition has a TDP of 320 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

200 W TDP 320 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 38 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 4070 Founders Edition.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition 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 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition is 244 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition is 304 mm long, 137 mm high and 61 mm wide.

244 mm Length 304 mm
112 mm Height 137 mm
-- Width 61 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition was released in Q2/2023 at a price of 599 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition was introduced in Q4/2022 at a price of 1,199 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no --
Q2/2023 Release date Q4/2022
599 $ Launch Price 1,199 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 5 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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