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GeForce RTX 3080 against GeForce RTX 5070

GeForce RTX 5070 leads on the overall index. The price beside each button is the Amazon US reading where ScoutPrices has one; the comparison below is worked on typical prices.

Which one for what

Office & everyday

GeForce RTX 5070right

54 vs 62 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

GeForce RTX 5070right

50 vs 57 for cores for builds and containers, plenty of memory, fast storage, and a card for several screens or a local model.

Light gaming

GeForce RTX 5070right

55 vs 65 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

GeForce RTX 5070right

49 vs 58 for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Heavy gaming

GeForce RTX 5070right

40 vs 49 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

GeForce RTX 5070right

50 vs 57 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

GeForce RTX 5070right

50 vs 57 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

GeForce RTX 5070right

49 vs 57 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

GeForce RTX 5070right

44 vs 51 for video memory first, then card speed, then system memory.

Head to head

Scores

Indices out of 100 on ScoutSpecs' own scale, one per kind of work. They are not frames per second and not a measurement of any one sample.

  • Spec score

    GeForce RTX 3080: 49

    GeForce RTX 5070: 58

    9 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1080p

    GeForce RTX 3080: 55

    GeForce RTX 5070: 65

    10 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1440p

    GeForce RTX 3080: 49

    GeForce RTX 5070: 58

    9 ptsto the right

  • Games at 4K

    GeForce RTX 3080: 40

    GeForce RTX 5070: 49

    9 ptsto the right

  • Rendering and video

    GeForce RTX 3080: 50

    GeForce RTX 5070: 56

    6 ptsto the right

Price and value

Worked on typical prices, the figures the comparison is built on.

  • Value, points per $100

    GeForce RTX 3080: 7

    GeForce RTX 5070: 7

    level

  • Typical price

    GeForce RTX 3080: $699

    GeForce RTX 5070: $827

    $128to the left

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    GeForce RTX 3080: 10 GB

    GeForce RTX 5070: 12 GB

    20%to the right

  • Board power

    GeForce RTX 3080: 320 W

    GeForce RTX 5070: 250 W

    28%to the right

  • Length

    GeForce RTX 3080: 313 mm

    GeForce RTX 5070: 245 mm

    28%to the right

The verdict

  • The RTX 5070 is 18% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 23% in the RTX 5070's favour.
  • RTX 5070 carries 12 GB of video memory against 10 GB.
  • The RTX 3080 typically costs $128 less.

Specifications

SpecGeForce RTX 3080GeForce RTX 5070
Video memory10 GB12 GB (better)
Board power320 W250 W (better)
Length313 mm245 mm (better)
Power connectorPCIe 8-pin12V-2x6 (16-pin)
BrandNvidiaNvidia
Released20202025 (better)
Typical price$699 (better)$827

The better figure of each pair is in green, with a tick.

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