NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Price

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$ 1499.00

$ 1439.99

$ 59.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

62 %

134 %

116% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

316 FPS

190 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

105 FPS

164 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

231 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

82 FPS

131 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9889

19592

98% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

876.47

5958.08

579% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628

235513

323% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295

209081

241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662

131975

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

51904

209081

302% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

88113

164683

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1370 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1665 MHz

5% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

12 GiB

9% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

384 Bit

9% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

88% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

40% slightly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

186.5 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

532.8 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

34.1 TFLOPS

200% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

10240

185% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

320

42% much more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

27% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 549

10th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

March 2017

May 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 11 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.