RTX 4070 vs RTX 3080

RTX 4070 is $100.00 less expensive than RTX 3080, while offering comparable throughput.

RTX 407012GB VRAM

ArchitectureAda Lovelace

Cores5,888

TDP200W

Lowest price$599.00

RTX 308010GB VRAM

ArchitectureAmpere

Cores8,704

TDP320W

Lowest price$699.00

Winners

speedRTX 30808,704 cores

valueRTX 4070Lowest price $599.00

efficiencyRTX 4070200W draw

vramRTX 407012GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	RTX 4070	RTX 3080
unsloth/gemma-3-1b-it	Q4	108.54 tok/s	152.31 tok/s
WeiboAI/VibeThinker-1.5B	Q4	107.55 tok/s	150.00 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B	Q4	107.50 tok/s	148.72 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	Q4	107.43 tok/s	151.63 tok/s
inference-net/Schematron-3B	Q4	107.31 tok/s	141.26 tok/s