NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 1100.95 significantly less expensive

$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

16207 points

159% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

382 FPS

253 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

188 FPS

83 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

275 FPS

194 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

151 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

21929 points

121% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

6069.41 points

604% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

55628 points

260346 points

368% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

229738 points

274% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

141134 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

207329 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

187369 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1560 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

24 GiB

118% significantly 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

1008 GB/s

108% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

79% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

49% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

76% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

252% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

10752

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

336

49% significantly 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

77th of 586

16th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2022 January

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 3090 Ti comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3090 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 GTX 1080 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 11 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.