NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2505MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (320W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 716.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +42%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4080 +42%

28238

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

19760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +43%

132

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +60%

246

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +50%

300

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

199

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +10%

73

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +57%

121

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

77

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080 +60%

180

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

112

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +7%

123

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080

165

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +13%

187

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080

188

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +5%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4080 +24%

127

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

102

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4080 +20%

181

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

150

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4080

182

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +2%

186

GeForce RTX 4080

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GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

May 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

80

-

Compute Units

-

9728

Shading Units

10240

304

TMUs

320

112

ROPs

112

304

Tensor Cores

320

76

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA102

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

350W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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