NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1815MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 495.9GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11.15 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +174%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

11546

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +62%

18801

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

48

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +83%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

91

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +65%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

129

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +48%

191

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

43

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +41%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

52

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +38%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

72

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +47%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

67

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +62%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

120

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +53%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

164

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +20%

198

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

82

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +14%

94

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

118

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +20%

142

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER +4%

180

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

172

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1650 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1815 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

495.9GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

8960

192

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

96

384

Tensor Cores

280

48

RT Cores

70

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

116.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

22.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

348.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

GA102

TU104-450-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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