NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 1184.99 significantly less expensive

$ 1549.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

13991 points

185% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

333 FPS

239 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

169 FPS

90 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

241 FPS

178 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

134 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

19931 points

164% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

5820.93 points

858% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

238123 points

362% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

204921 points

275% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

138859 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

194465 points

223% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

179816 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

24 GiB

200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

936.2 GB/s

192% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

94% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

71% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

556 Gigatexels/s

100% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

300% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

10496

309% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

328

104% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

25th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2020 September

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 vs GeForce RTX 3090 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 also 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 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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