NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1710MHz vs 1695MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 +16%

35.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

18851

GeForce RTX 3090 +5%

19948

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

88

GeForce RTX 3090 +5%

93

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

151

GeForce RTX 3090 +1%

154

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

191

GeForce RTX 3090 +4%

200

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

61

GeForce RTX 3090 +8%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

72

GeForce RTX 3090 +9%

79

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

106

GeForce RTX 3090 +7%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

109

GeForce RTX 3090 +6%

116

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

184

GeForce RTX 3090 +2%

189

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

198

GeForce RTX 3090

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

94

GeForce RTX 3090 +39%

131

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

142

GeForce RTX 3090 +28%

182

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

172

GeForce RTX 3090 +21%

209

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce RTX 3090

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1219 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

936.2GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

82

8960

Shading Units

10496

280

TMUs

328

96

ROPs

112

280

Tensor Cores

328

70

RT Cores

82

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.0 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

35.58 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.58 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

350W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GA102

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

628 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

8.6

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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