NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

22391 points

92% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

485 FPS

204 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

275 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

380 FPS

181 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

229 FPS

118 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

104% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8612 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

10629.29 points

120% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

276510 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

241275 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

2280 MHz

58% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2520 MHz

47% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

24 GiB

139% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

384 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

32% slightly lower TDP

425 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

443.5 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

14592

67% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

456

67% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

176

83% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

5th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4090 D specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 D graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4090 D 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 4090 D 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 D has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 10 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 3080 has a slightly lower TDP at 320 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 D at 425 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4090 D is faster than the GeForce RTX 3080.