RTX 3080 vs RTX 3070

RTX 3080 is $200.00 more expensive than RTX 3070, while offering higher throughput.

RTX 308010GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores8,704

TDP320W

Lowest price$699.00

RTX 30708GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores5,888

TDP220W

Lowest price$499.00

Winners

speedRTX 30808,704 cores

valueRTX 3070Lowest price $499.00

efficiencyRTX 3070220W draw

vramRTX 308010GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	RTX 3080	RTX 3070
TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0	Q4	164.74 tok/s	86.83 tok/s
google/embeddinggemma-300m	Q4	163.14 tok/s	97.17 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	Q4	161.87 tok/s	87.49 tok/s
allenai/OLMo-2-0425-1B	Q4	161.13 tok/s	90.25 tok/s
google/gemma-2b	Q4	159.35 tok/s	83.74 tok/s