NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
7890 points
60% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
185 FPS
92 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
95 FPS
16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
132 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
75 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
3279.67 points
440% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points
138398 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points
125425 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points
91922 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
113801 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
103840 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
44% significantly higher core clock speed
1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
12% slightly higher boost clock speed
1545 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
448 GB/s
39% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
115 W
56% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
148.3 Gigapixels/s
33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
296.6 Gigatexels/s
6% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
18.98 TFLOPS
113% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
6144
139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
192
20% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
96
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
59th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop comparison

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

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1080.

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