NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

6016 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +204%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +72%

18851

GeForce RTX 2080

10946

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +91%

88

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +77%

151

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +50%

191

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +56%

61

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +53%

72

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +58%

106

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +73%

109

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +61%

184

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +25%

198

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

94

GeForce RTX 2080 +12%

106

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +31%

142

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

172

GeForce RTX 2080 +4%

180

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

46

8960

Shading Units

2944

280

TMUs

184

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

368

70

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

215W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

TU104

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Turing

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

12 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

545 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

8.6

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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