NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Price

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$ 633.11

$ 116.88 slightly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

10078 points

11608 points

15% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

217 FPS

281 FPS

64 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

153 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

141 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

153 FPS

200 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

115 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

111 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

14639 points

17631 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3056.90 points

4821.52 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

176681 points

206390 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145322 points

181771 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

132328 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

126138 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

145114 points

173309 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

134471 points

158661 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1350 MHz

1440 MHz

6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

1710 MHz

10% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

10% slightly more memory

10 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

10% slightly larger memory bus width

320 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

616 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

23% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

28% slightly lower TDP

320 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

136 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

420.2 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

13.45 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

121% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4352

8704

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

Identical

272

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

9% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

37th of 586

32nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 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 RTX 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has slightly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 over the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

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