NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1665MHz vs 1545MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 11GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 616.0GB/s)
5888 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
13.45 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+153%
34.1 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
14622
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+34%
19629
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
7001
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+43%
10032
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
3042
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+75%
5330
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
58
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+58%
92
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
109
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+40%
153
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
145
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+37%
199
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
50
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+32%
66
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
62
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+24%
77
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
86
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+30%
112
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
81
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+40%
114
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
138
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+35%
187
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
190
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+4%
199
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
90
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+11%
100
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
146
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+2%
150
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
180
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+3%
186
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
May 2021
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1350 MHz
Base Clock
1365 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
11GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
352bit
Memory Bus
384bit
616.0GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
68
SM Count
80
4352
Shading Units
10240
272
TMUs
320
88
ROPs
112
544
Tensor Cores
320
68
RT Cores
80
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
0 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
136.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
186.5 GPixel/s
420.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
26.90 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
13.45 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
420.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
532.8 GFLOPS
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
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
TU102
GPU Name
GA102
TU102-300A-K1-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-225-A1
Turing
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
12 nm
Process Size
8 nm
18.6 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
754 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
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
