The RTX 3090 might be the extreme flagship of the latest Ampere set of graphics cards, but their prices keep them out of the reach of most high-end PC gamers. On the other hand, the RTX 3080 is closer to being reasonably affordable at a price tag of $ 699. The good news is, with the release of the RTX 3080 Ti, the RTX 3080 's price is getting more discount.
Spec for spec, this RTX 3080 leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RTX 2080, by boasting 69.4 % more fps. The RTX 3080 has 10 GB RAM compared to the RTX 2080 's 8 GB video memory.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 3080 consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RTX 2080, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and it really justifies an upgrade. Compared to its AMD 's closest rival, RX 6800 XT, the RTX 3080 was -1.6 % slower.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Microsoft Flight Simulator, Immortals of Aveum, The Callisto Protocol, Remnant II, The Last of Us Part I at 67 fps to 85 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 75 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play The Last of Us Part I, Forspoken, Atomic Heart, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy at 65 fps to 85 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 73 fps.
For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Halo Infinite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, GreedFall, Cyberpunk 2077, Godfall at 61 fps to 64 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 62 fps.
The good news is, with the release of the RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 2080 SUPER 's price is getting more discount. Spec for spec, this RTX 2080 SUPER leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the GTX 1080, by boasting 32.8 % more fps.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 2080 SUPER consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the GTX 1080, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Forspoken, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Atomic Heart, Halo Infinite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla at 63 fps to 69 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Marvel's Avengers, Metro Exodus, Cyberpunk 2077, Total War: Warhammer III, Borderlands 3 at 64 fps to 67 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Resident Evil 2, Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn, Death Stranding, Resident Evil 4 at 61 fps to 65 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps.
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| Length | 285 mm 11.2 inches | 10.5 inches 267 mm |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort 1x USB Type-C | 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort1x USB Type-C |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 320 W | 215 W |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1710 MHz | 1815 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1440 MHz | 1650 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 2375 MHz 19000 MHz effective | 1937 MHz 15496 MHz effective |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | GeForce 20 |
| Launch Price | 699 USD | 699 USD |
| Production | Active | Active |
| Release Date | Sep 17th, 2020 | Jul 23rd, 2019 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| CUDA | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12.0 (12_1) |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 6.4 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.140 | 1.1.109 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Turing |
| Die Size | 627 mm² | 545 mm² |
| GPU Name | GA102 | TU104 |
| GPU Variant | GA102-200-K1-A1 | TU104-400-A1 |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 12 nm |
| Transistors | 28,000 million | 13,600 million |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 760.0 GB/s | 495.9 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 320 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Size | 10240 MB | 8192 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR6 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 88 | 64 |
| RT Cores | 68 | 48 |
| SM Count | 68 | 48 |
| Shading Units | 8704 | 3072 |
| TMUs | 272 | 192 |
| Tensor Cores | TBD | 384 |
| RTX 3080 | RTX 2080 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 59.54 TFLOPS (2:1) | 22,300 GFLOPS (2:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | 29.77 TFLOPS | 11,150 GFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 930.2 GFLOPS (1:32) | 348.5 GFLOPS (1:32) |
| Pixel Rate | 150.5 GPixel/s | 116.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 465.1 GTexel/s | 348.5 GTexel/s |
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