NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 504.2GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (2610MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (285W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB +34%

40.09 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2610 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

320bit

Memory Bus

192bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

60

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

7680

272

TMUs

240

96

ROPs

80

272

Tensor Cores

240

68

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.8 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

626.4 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.09 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.09 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

626.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD104

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

285W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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