NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, 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
$ 1119.20
$ 430.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13973 points
23810 points
70% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

331 FPS
552 FPS
221 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS
276 FPS
107 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

240 FPS
404 FPS
163 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS
225 FPS
91 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points
127% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
8762 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points
9133.30 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points
267906 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points
257198 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz
2295 MHz
63% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz
2617 MHz
54% 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
960 GB/s
2% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
2% slightly lower TDP
360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s
293.1 Gigapixels/s
54% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s
879.3 Gigatexels/s
58% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS
56.28 TFLOPS
58% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496
10752
2% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328
336
2% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
Identical
112

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

26th of 590
4th of 590

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR7

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 5080 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5080 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3090 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the GeForce RTX 3090.

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