NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 749.99
$ 336.70
$ 413.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
135% significantly better overall score
4933 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
166 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
114 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
76 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
65 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
122 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
62 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
49 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points
124% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
7843 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
121% significantly higher Blender score
2173.35 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
94250 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
85184 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
66795 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
84977 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
79052 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz
43% significantly higher core clock speed
1005 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
10% slightly higher boost clock speed
1545 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB
25% slightly more memory
8 GiB

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
82% significantly higher memory bandwidth
416 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W
160 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
66% significantly higher pixel rate
98.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s
109% significantly higher texture rate
222.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS
318% significantly better floating point performance
7.12 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704
277% significantly more shading units
2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272
88% significantly more texture mapping units
144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
49% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586
103rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6

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 vs Quadro RTX 4000 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the Quadro RTX 4000 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 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 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 has slightly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 Quadro RTX 4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the Quadro RTX 4000.

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