NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 716.8GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (2505MHz vs 1695MHz)

Lower TDP (320W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB +36%

48.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

76

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

9728

328

TMUs

304

112

ROPs

112

328

Tensor Cores

304

82

RT Cores

76

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6 MB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD103

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

320W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 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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