NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 736.3GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2550MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (320W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +46%

52.22 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090

19877

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +43%

28458

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090

93

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +48%

138

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090

154

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +64%

254

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090

200

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +50%

300

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090

66

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +13%

75

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090

79

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +64%

130

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090

114

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +62%

185

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090

116

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +36%

158

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090

189

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +5%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090

199

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

200

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090

132

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER +36%

180

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 +1%

182

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

180

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 +10%

209

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

190

GeForce RTX 3090

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GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395MHz

Base Clock

2295MHz

1695MHz

Boost Clock

2550MHz

1219MHz

Memory Clock

1438MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2 GB/s

Bandwidth

736.3 GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

80

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

10240

328

TMUs

320

112

ROPs

112

328

Tensor Cores

320

82

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6MB

L2 Cache

64MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

285.6 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

816.0 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

52.22 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

52.22 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

816.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD103

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28,300 million

Transistors

45,900 million

628mm²

Die Size

379mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

320W

750W

Suggested PSU

700W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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