NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

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

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Price

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$ 1549.99
$ 1019.99
$ 530.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points
21492 points
53% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS
515 FPS
182 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS
248 FPS
80 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS
358 FPS
117 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
201 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points
201% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6612 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points
8420.29 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
247624 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points
227105 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz
2205 MHz
57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz
2505 MHz
47% significantly 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
30% slightly higher memory bandwidth
716.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
340 W
2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s
280.6 Gigapixels/s
47% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s
801.6 Gigatexels/s
44% significantly higher texture rate

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
Identical
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586
6th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER beats the GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 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 SUPER also has a significantly 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 4080 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 340 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER is better than the GeForce RTX 3090.

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