NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

25% slightly better overall score

11108 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

48 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

285 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

29 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

140 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

48 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

193 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

110 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

5482.15 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

159842 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

145828 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

8% slightly higher core clock speed

1290 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

116% significantly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

110 W

218% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

133.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

386.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

43% significantly better floating point performance

24.72 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

41% slightly more shading units

7424

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

41% slightly more texture mapping units

232

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

34th 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 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop specs and performance

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

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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