NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 2467.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2832.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

143% significantly better overall score

2012 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

48 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

30 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1534.25 points

152% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points

70456 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

61102 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

54040 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

62696 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

58257 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

945 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

80 W

125% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

208th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Quadro RTX 3000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is faster than the Quadro RTX 3000 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 Quadro RTX 3000 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than the Quadro RTX 3000.