GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 45)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 64)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 45.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 64.0 Average 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 50092 75605
Night Raid 164614 199650
Port Royal 13123 23275
Solar Bay 98188 161489
Time Spy 20879 33000
Wild Life Extreme 41625 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.9 12.0
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 62500 69068
Face Detection (HP) 52836 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 12146 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 23932 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 36321 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 5017 7905
Object Detection (SP) 15164 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 179788 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 357489 349205
Text Classification (SP) 3371 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 359.5 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 10.4 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 210 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.97 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 11.3 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 7.61 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 29061.4 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 969.3 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 7900 XT —
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename AD104 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 14700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released January 17, 2024 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1980 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2475 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 56 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 56 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 112
Shading Units 7168 10752
Tensor Cores 224 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1313 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 12 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 271 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1193 1397
GPU Compute 16926 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 294 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 220 W 360 W
Transistor Count 35 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 119.05 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 198 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 554 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2025-11-28(Caleb) GeekBench —
📘 2025-12-08(Rickey) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High — 239
1080p Ultra — 205
1440p Ultra — 165
4K Ultra — 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 — 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 — 21319213861
Far Cry 6 — 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 — 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima — 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy — 18515212467
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 306276214111
The Witcher 3 — 27124417290

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