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.
NVIDIA · Ampere
8 GB VRAM220W TDP$499 MSRP2020
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 benchmarks →
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NVIDIA · Ampere
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
12 GB VRAM350W TDP$1,199 MSRP2021
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti benchmarks →
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-05-27. Price and availability subject to change.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 8 | 12 |
| vram type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| tdp w | 220 | 350 |
| cuda cores | 5888 | 10240 |
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.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | 17,115 points | — |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 8,324 points | 14,630 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | — | 5,094 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad Graphics | 3,180 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 14,048 points | 19,126 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 6,907 points | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,005 pts | 1,095 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 22,123 pts | 26,774 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
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
- llama3:8b: 106.7 tok/s
- llama3.1:8b: 89.7 tok/s
- qwen3:8b: 68.1 tok/s