NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2018
Jan 2022
Generation
GeForce 20
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
912.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
46
70
Shading Units
2944
8960
TMUs
184
280
ROPs
64
96
Tensor Cores
368
280
RT Cores
46
70
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
4 MB
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
109.4 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
314.6 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
20.14 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.07 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
314.6 GFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
TU104
GA102
GPU Variant
TU104-400A-A1
GA102-220-A1
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
12 nm
8 nm
Transistors
13.6 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
545 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
215W
350W
Suggested PSU
550 W
750 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
7.5
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
11,078
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
5,146
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3DMark Speed Way
2,171
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Battlefield 5 1080p
158
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
46
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Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
39
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
85
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Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
47
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
127
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Battlefield 5 2160p
63
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Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
67
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Battlefield 5 1440p
114
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GTA 5 2160p
106
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GTA 5 1440p
108
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GTA 5 1080p
180
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