GeForce RTX 4070 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 (53/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 44)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 54)
GeForce RTX 4070
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4070

53/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 44.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 54.0 Below Average 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 44067 75605
Night Raid 153385 199650
Port Royal 11156 23275
Solar Bay 82861 161489
Time Spy 17799 33000
Wild Life Extreme 35472 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 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

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 167 239
1080p Ultra 139 205
1440p Ultra 106 165
4K Ultra 62 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 14914510769 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 27220514981 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 1291197537 21319213861
Far Cry 6 14913311568 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 17211510279 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 106887243 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 117977739 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 21119014580 306276214111
The Witcher 3 19415911461 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 50548 69068
Face Detection (HP) 51337 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 10246 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 26153 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32054 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 5484 7905
Object Detection (SP) 13134 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 124617 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 263477 349205
Text Classification (SP) 3703 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 233 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 9.19 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 141.7 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.78 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.2 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 6.62 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 25043.9 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 845.4 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 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 April 13, 2023 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5070 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1920 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2475 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 36MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 112
Shading Units 5888 10752
Tensor Cores 184 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 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 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 243 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 103 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1165 1397
GPU Compute 14570 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 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 200 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 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 158 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 455 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2025-12-14(kashitsu) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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