Introduction
Do you have a GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER from 2019 and want to upgrade to the new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER in 2024 and want to know the performance uplift you will get? In today’s performance comparison review, we are going to compare gaming benchmarks with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER versus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER to find out what upgrading will look like.
We have previously looked at the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER versus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER as an academic look at what moving from the same model to model from 2019 to 2024 gets you in performance, regardless of pricing. However, pricing has changed in 2024, the pricing of GPUs today is in a completely different segment from where they were in 2019.
If we look at what more closely aligns by pricing with a GPU from 2019, like the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, we actually find that the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the closer price comparison. In other words, if you paid a certain amount of money in 2019 for a GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, then for that same amount of money today (with inflation calculated), the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER more closely aligns with that same dollar amount today. We can compare the performance between these two video cards and find out what kind of performance uplift you will really get from upgrading for the same amount of money.
The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER’s MSRP at launch was $699, and if we use the CPI Inflation Calculator, that would be $854.23 in today’s dollars. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER launched at a $799 MSRP in 2024. Therefore, if you take the MSRP at face value (with the pricing of the time), the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER has a $100 higher MSRP.
However, if you take inflation into consideration, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is about $50 less expensive than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER would be in today’s dollars. That’s about as close as you can get, if you spent that amount of money in 2019, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is the closest match in pricing today, so we must compare the performance.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER was launched in July of 2019 as a refresh to the RTX 20 series Turing architecture-based GPUs that launched in 2018. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER was launched at an MSRP of $699, which replaced the GeForce RTX 2080 at the same pricing. If we use the CPI Inflation Calculator that would be around $854.23 today.
The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is based on the TU104 GPU die with 48 SMs, 3,072 CUDA Cores, 64 ROPs, 192 Texture Units, 384 Tensor Cores, and 48 RT Cores. The Boost Clock is 1815MHz. It has 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus at 15.5Gbps providing 496GB/s of bandwidth. The TGP is 250W.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER was launched in January of 2024 as a replacement for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Ada Lovelace architecture-based GPU that launched in 2023. The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER was launched at an MSRP of $799, which replaced the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti at the same pricing.
The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is based on the AD103 GPU die with 66 SMs, 8,448 CUDA Cores, 96 ROPs, 264 Texture Units, 264 Tensor Cores, and 66 RT Cores. The Boost Clock is 2610MHz. It has 16GB of GDDR6X on a 256-bit bus at 21Gbps providing 672GB/s of bandwidth. The TGP is 285W.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Specifications
| Specification | GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER | GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Turing |
| SMs | 66 | 48 |
| GPU Cores | 8448 CUDA Cores | 3072 CUDA Cores |
| ROPs | 96 | 64 |
| Tensor Cores | 264 | 384 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 66 | 48 |
| Boost Clock | 2610MHz | 1815MHz |
| Memory | 16GB GDDR6X | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Clock | 21Gbps | 15.5Gbps |
| TDP/TBP | 285W | 250W |
| MSRP | $799 | $699 |
*Note that for our GPU comparison, we are using an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Video Card for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER because there is not a Founders Edition model of this GPU. The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER runs at the NVIDIA default stock reference boost clock of 2610MHz, therefore there is no factory overclock being used for comparison.
