NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
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| NVIDIAGeForce RTX 2080 Ti | NVIDIAGeForce RTX 4070 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Released | September 2018 | April 2023 |
| Performance | ||
| Chip maker | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Turing | Ada Lovelace |
| Shader cores | 4,352 | 5,888 |
| Boost clock | 1,545 MHz or 1,635 MHz | 2,475 MHz |
| Architecture | Main figures describe NVIDIA's reference specification; the Founders Edition has a factory overclock and higher power rating. The photo shows PNY's stock-clock 11 GB Blower, whose cooler differs from the Founders Edition geometry below. NVIDIA's original announcement named 20 September availability; its 27 September partner roundup confirms cards available by that date. The release month retains this shipment-date uncertainty. | AD104 GPU; 46 SMs. NVIDIA reference specifications; photo illustrates an ASUS DUAL partner cooler without establishing its memory type or factory overclock. |
| Manufacturing process | – | TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process; 35.8 billion transistors; 294.5 mm² die |
| Ray tracing | Hardware-accelerated ray tracing | 46 third-generation RT Cores; 67 RT TFLOPS |
| AI cores | – | 184 fourth-generation Tensor Cores; 466 AI TOPS |
| Upscaling and frame generation | NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation | DLSS 3.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation |
| Base clock | 1350 MHz for reference and Founders Edition; boost is 1545 MHz reference or 1635 MHz Founders Edition | 1.92 GHz; stock PNY and Gainward cards confirm 2,475 MHz boost, while NVIDIA rounds it to 2.48 GHz |
| Cache | – | 36 MB L2 |
| Memory | ||
| Video memory | 11 GB GDDR6 | 12 GB GDDR6X or 12 GB GDDR6 (better) |
| Memory bus | 352-bit (better) | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 616 GB/s | 504 GB/s or 480 GB/s |
| Memory detail | 14 Gbps GDDR6; 616 GB/s bandwidth | 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 | 250 W or 260 W | 200 W |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 | PCIe 4.0 |
| Display outputs | Founders Edition and PNY Blower have 3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.0b and 1 × USB-C VirtualLink; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.2 | 3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1a; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3 |
| Maximum resolution | 7680 × 4320; DisplayPort supports 4K 144 Hz or 8K 60 Hz with DSC | 4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC, HDR |
| Power connector | 2 × PCIe 8-pin (reference and Founders Edition) | 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 | 650 W | 650 W |
| Slot width | 2-slot (Founders Edition) | 2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition) |
| Size (reference card) | 266.74 × 115.7 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition); NVIDIA does not specify reference-card geometry in its table | 244 × 112 mm, 2-slot (original GDDR6X Founders Edition) |
| Video encode and decode | Turing NVENC; no hardware AV1 encoding | 1 × eighth-generation NVENC, 1 × fifth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode |
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