NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7890 points

19480 points

146% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

185 FPS

480 FPS

295 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS

226 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

132 FPS

334 FPS

202 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS

183 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3279.67 points

8733.11 points

166% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

113801 points

241464 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

103840 points

217807 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz

2025 MHz

82% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1545 MHz

2375 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

678.4 GB/s

51% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

265% significantly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

148.3 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

53% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

296.6 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

156% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

18.98 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

156% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

10240

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

320

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

59th of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 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 3080 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4080 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 beats the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4080 has a significantly 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 4080 also has a significantly 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 4080 at 420 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.