GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile vs RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated27
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data41.25
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BAD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date19 January 2020 (4 years ago)3 January 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 cores23047424
Core clock speed1305 MHz1290 MHz
Boost clock speed1485 MHz1665 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate213.8386.3
Floating-point processing power6.843 TFLOPS24.72 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs144232
Tensor Cores288232
Ray Tracing Cores3658

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s432.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2020 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 4080 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 200% more advanced lithography process, and 4.5% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh
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