GeForce RTX 4080 Ti vs GTX 1070 SLI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking122not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.69no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLIAD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384014080
Core clock speed1506 MHz2340 MHz
Boost clock speed1683 MHz2610 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,148
Floating-point processing powerno data73.5 TFLOPS
ROPsno data144
TMUsno data440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data336 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz1325 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data678.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 16 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 400 Watt

GTX 1070 SLI has 33.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Ti, on the other hand, has a 220% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI and GeForce RTX 4080 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
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