NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 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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$ 799.95

$ 68.04 slightly less expensive

$ 867.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

64 %

110 %

71% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

151 FPS

268 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

93 FPS

138 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

193 FPS

87 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

68 FPS

108 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

10992

17552

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.03

5024.89

105% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612

206390

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930

181771

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178

126138

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112906

174018

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

102155

158471

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1440 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

Identical

1710 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

10 GiB

25% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

69% significantly 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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

164.2 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

465.1 Gigatexels/s

47% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

195% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

8704

195% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

272

47% significantly more texture mapping units

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

32nd of 557

14th of 557

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2018

September 2020

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 vs GeForce RTX 3080 comparison

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

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 2080 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce RTX 2080.

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