NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 868.99
$ 250.21 slightly less expensive
$ 1119.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points
24070 points
69% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS
559 FPS
217 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS
276 FPS
108 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS
406 FPS
161 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS
225 FPS
90 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points
124% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
8762 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points
9133.30 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points
267906 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points
257198 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz
2295 MHz
67% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
2617 MHz
57% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
16 GiB
33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s
960 GB/s
5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
2% slightly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
57% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
65% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
65% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
10752
5% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
336
5% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
Identical
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586
4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5080 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5080 has a significantly 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 5080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 5080 has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 350 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

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