NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 1299.99

$ 250.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

19480 points

39% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

480 FPS

147 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

226 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

334 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

183 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

107 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

73 FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

98 FPS

127 FPS

29 FPS slightly higher Call of Duty FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

82 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

110 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

61 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

81 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

118 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

86 FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

166 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS

139 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

108 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

83 FPS

Metro Exodus FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

87 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Metro Exodus FPS

72 FPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

113 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

105 FPS

The Witcher 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

71 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher The Witcher 3 FPS

32 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

202% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

6585 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

8733.11 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

241464 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

217807 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2025 MHz

44% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2375 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

49% significantly more memory

16 GiB

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

936.2 GB/s

38% slightly higher memory bandwidth

678.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

20% slightly lower TDP

420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

228 Gigapixels/s

20% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

760 Gigatexels/s

36% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

48.64 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

2% slightly more shading units

10240

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

2% slightly more texture mapping units

320

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

25th of 586

9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 September

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 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4080 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3090 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly lower TDP at 350 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4080 is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090.

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