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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3080 sales 1 September 2020 at a recommended price of $699. This is high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 10 GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 19 GB/s are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 760.3 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is Dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 285 mm. 1x 12-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 320 Watt.

It provides outstanding gaming and benchmark performance at 96.10 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.

General info

Of GeForce RTX 3080's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

42.70

Architecture

Ampere

Code name

GA102

Type

Desktop

Release date

1 September 2020

Launch price (MSRP)

$699

Price now

$750

of 10182 (Quadro GV100)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 3080's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3080's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

8704

of 10752 (GA102)

Core clock speed

1450 MHz

of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)

Transistor count

28,300 million

of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

of 7 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Power consumption (TDP)

320 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

465.1

of 708 (Quadro RTX 8200)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce RTX 3080's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Length

285 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3080: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

10 GB

of 8192 (Radeon RX 480)

Memory bus width

320 Bit

of 6144 (GRID A100A)

Memory clock speed

19 GB/s

of 16000 (GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile)

Memory bandwidth

760.3 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon VII)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3080. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3080, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce RTX 3080. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

96.10

Passmark

24626

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3080 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.