NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7909 points

7964 points

0.70% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

177 FPS

186 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

127 FPS

133 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

82 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2321.66 points

3279.67 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

126130 points

138398 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

114956 points

125425 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

93540 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

91922 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

118678 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

113801 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

111284 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

103840 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1650 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz

17% 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

495.9 GB/s

10% slightly higher memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

115 W

117% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s

148.3 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

296.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

70% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

6144

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

Identical

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

57th of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 250 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 3080 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER.