NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Release years: 2020, 2021. MSRP range: $499 · $1,199. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
vram gb 812
vram type GDDR6GDDR6X
tdp w 220350
cuda cores 588810240

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme 17,115 points
3DMark Port Royal 8,324 points14,630 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 5,094 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Graphics 3,180 points
3DMark Time Spy 14,048 points19,126 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 6,907 points
PassMark G2D Mark 1,005 pts1,095 pts
PassMark G3D Mark 22,123 pts26,774 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

  • llama3:8b: 70.9 tok/s
  • qwen3.5:9b: 57.9 tok/s
  • qwen3:235b: 50.0 tok/s

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

  • llama3:8b: 106.7 tok/s
  • llama3.1:8b: 89.7 tok/s
  • qwen3:8b: 68.1 tok/s

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