NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

14473 points

24% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

355 FPS

74 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

182 FPS

41 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

253 FPS

54 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

145 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

7059.26 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

181715 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

172409 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1335 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

0.88% slightly higher boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

120 W

166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

189.8 Gigapixels/s

15% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

515.3 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

9728

11% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

304

11% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

19th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

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 Laptop benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3080 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 4090 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3080.