NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Price

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$ 799.95

$ 640.04 significantly less expensive

$ 1439.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

64 %

134 %

109% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

151 FPS

316 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

93 FPS

164 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

106 FPS

231 FPS

125 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

68 FPS

131 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

10992

19592

78% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.03

5958.08

143% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

120612

235513

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

105930

209081

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87178

131975

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113223

209081

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

102477

164683

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

10% slightly higher core clock speed

1370 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

103% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

40% slightly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

186.5 Gigapixels/s

70% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

532.8 Gigatexels/s

69% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

34.1 TFLOPS

238% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

10240

247% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

320

73% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

29th of 549

10th of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2018

May 2021

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 Ti benchmarks

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

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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 GeForce RTX 2080 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 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 Ti is better than the GeForce RTX 2080.