NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6963 points

7964 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

159 FPS

186 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

112 FPS

133 FPS

21 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

72 FPS

75 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

3279.67 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612 points

138398 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930 points

125425 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178 points

91922 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

113801 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

103840 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

10% 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

448 GB/s

Identical

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

109.4 Gigapixels/s

148.3 Gigapixels/s

35% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

6% slightly higher texture rate

296.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

18.98 TFLOPS

88% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

6144

108% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

192

4% slightly 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

68th of 597

55th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

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 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop comparison

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 has a slightly 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 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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