GPU Benchmarks NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti vs. NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs. NVIDIA RTX 4070

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We benchmark NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX 4070 GPUs and compare AI performance (deep learning training; FP16, FP32, PyTorch, TensorFlow), 3d rendering, Cryo-EM performance in the most popular apps (Octane, VRay, Redshift, Blender, Luxmark, Unreal Engine, Relion Cryo-EM).

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Featured GPU benchmarks:

Benchmarks

Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks 2024–2025 [Updated]

As of April 2025

Resnet50 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
488.56 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1720 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1597.66 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5934 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Resnet50 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
741.26 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
2465.23 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Resnet50 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
302.88 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
927 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1075.19 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1715 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Resnet50 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
330.72 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1132.16 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Resnet152 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
213.35 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
681.19 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Resnet152 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
290.23 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
977.06 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
293.76 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1031 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
404.99 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
1467.97 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
198.81 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
739.49 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Inception V3 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
215.54 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
772.66 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Inception V4 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
155.84 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
564.62 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Inception V4 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
220.7 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
790.82 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

VGG16 (FP16)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
264.14 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
578.14 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

VGG16 (FP16 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
324.85 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
926.34 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

VGG16 (FP32)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
178.65 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
452.2 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

VGG16 (FP32 XLA)

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
194.89 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
528.33 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

3D, GPU Rendering Benchmarks 2024–2025 [Updated]

As of April 2025

V-Ray

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
345 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
5556 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Octane

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
368 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1445 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Redshift

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
8.38 minutes
NVIDIA RTX 4090
1.16 minutes
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
lower is better

Blender

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
3163.85 score
NVIDIA RTX 4090
12123.96 score
NVIDIA RTX 4070
6026.47 score
higher is better

Luxmark

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
33195 points
NVIDIA RTX 4090
158815 points
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Unreal Engine

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
30.1 FPS
NVIDIA RTX 4090
92.1 FPS
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

RELION Cryo-EM Benchmarks 2024-2025 [Updated]

As of April 2025

Total run time

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
105.2 Min
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
4 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
53.2 Min
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
lower is better

Llama3 70B Inference Benchmark 2024–2025 [Updated]

As of April 2025

Eval rate

1 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
9.95 tokens/s
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
2 GPU
NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti
n/a
NVIDIA RTX 4090
19.99 tokens/s
NVIDIA RTX 4070
n/a
higher is better

Technical Specifications

Board Design

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
Length11 in / 267 mm13 in / 336 mm9 in / 240 mm
Outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Power Connectors2x 8-pin1x 16-pin1x 16-pin
Slot widthDual-slotTriple-slotDual-slot
TDP250 W450 W200 W

Clock Speeds

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
Boost Clock1545 MHz2520 MHz2475 MHz
GPU Clock1350 MHz2235 MHz1920 MHz
Memory Clock14000 MHz21200 MHz21000 MHz

Graphics Card

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
Bus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
GenerationGeForce 20GeForce 40GeForce 40

Graphics Features

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL233
OpenGL4.64.64.6
Shader Model6.56.76.7
CUDA7.58.98.9

Graphics Processor

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
ArchitectureTuringAda LovelaceAda Lovelace
Die Size754 mm2608 mm2295 mm2
GPU NameTU102-300A-K1-A1AD102-300-A1AD104-250-A1
Process Size12 nm5 nm5 nm
Transistors18600 million76300 million35800 million

Memory

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
Bandwidth616 GB/s1018 GB/s504.2 GB/s
Memory Bus352 bit384 bit192 bit
Memory Size11 GB24 GB12 GB
Memory TypeGDDR6GDDR6XGDDR6X

Render Config

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
ROPs8819264
RT Cores6812846
Shading Units/ CUDA Cores4352163845888
TMUs272512184
Tensor Cores544512184

Theoretical Performance

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
FP16 (half) performance26.9 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) performance13.45 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance420.2 GFLOPS1290 GFLOPS455.4 GFLOPS
Pixel Rate136 GPixel/s483.8 GPixel/s158.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate420.2 GTexel/s1290 GTexel/s455.4 GTexel/s

Price

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
MSRP$1,199.00$1,599.00$599.00
Release DateSep 20th, 2018Oct 12th, 2022Apr 13th, 2023

Test bench configuration

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
HardwareBIZON G3000 More detailsBIZON X5500 More detailsBIZON X5500 More details
SoftwareDeep learning:
Nvidia Driver: 440
CUDA: 10.1
TensorFlow: 1.14
Batch size: 64
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver: 442.19
VRay Benchmark: 4.10.3
Octane Benchmark: 4.00
Redshift Benchmark: 3.0.x
Blender: 2.81
Luxmark: 3.1
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver:
VRay Benchmark:
Octane Benchmark:
Redshift Benchmark:
Blender:
Luxmark:
3D Rendering:
Nvidia Driver:
VRay Benchmark:
Octane Benchmark:
Redshift Benchmark:
Blender:
Luxmark:

Recommended hardware

NVIDIA RTX 2080 TiNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA RTX 4070
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