NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 868.99
$ 1896.74 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points
42789 points
201% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS
1019 FPS
677 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS
503 FPS
335 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS
740 FPS
495 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS
425 FPS
290 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points
35% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
14480 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points
14992.38 points
168% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points
383325 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points
380401 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz
2017 MHz
47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
2407 MHz
44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
32 GiB
166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
512 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
64% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
127% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
21760
112% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
680
112% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
176
57% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586
1st 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 5090 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5090 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 5090 also has a significantly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 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 significantly lower TDP at 350 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

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