NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti compared with GeForce RTX 4070

	NVIDIAGeForce GTX 1080 Ti	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 4070
Overview
Released
Released	March 2017	April 2023
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Pascal	Ada Lovelace
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,584	5,888
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,582 MHz	2,475 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	Founders Edition specifications verified by MSI's retained technical page and datasheet; stock PNY Blower specifications verify memory bandwidth. The photo is the Founders Edition render extracted from MSI's datasheet with its original PDF transparency mask.	AD104 GPU; 46 SMs. NVIDIA reference specifications; photo illustrates an ASUS DUAL partner cooler without establishing its memory type or factory overclock.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process; 35.8 billion transistors; 294.5 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated RT Cores	46 third-generation RT Cores; 67 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	No Tensor Cores	184 fourth-generation Tensor Cores; 466 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	No NVIDIA DLSS	DLSS 3.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	1480 MHz base and 1582 MHz boost (MSI Founders Edition specification)	1.92 GHz; stock PNY and Gainward cards confirm 2,475 MHz boost, while NVIDIA rounds it to 2.48 GHz
Cache
Cache	–	36 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	11 GB GDDR5X	12 GB GDDR6X or 12 GB GDDR6 (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	352-bit (better)	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	484 GB/s	504 GB/s or 480 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	11 Gbps GDDR5X (PNY stock Blower); MSI lists 11010 MHz memory speed	GDDR6X at 21 Gbps and 504 GB/s (stock PNY); later GDDR6 at 20 Gbps and 480 GB/s (stock Gainward). Both have 12 GB on a 192-bit bus
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	250 W	200 W (better)
Interface
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4, 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2. MSI's datasheet connection illustration names DVI-D despite its output specification omitting it; the Founders Edition has no native DVI connector.	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1a; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320	4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC, HDR
Power connector
Power connector	1 × PCIe 6-pin and 1 × PCIe 8-pin	1 × 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 2 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box; some partner cards use 1 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (Founders Edition)	2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	266 × 111 × 40 mm (MSI Founders Edition)	244 × 112 mm, 2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	–	1 × eighth-generation NVENC, 1 × fifth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode