GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 70.31% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3080 Ti sales 31 May 2021 at a recommended price of $1,199 . This is a high-end Ampere architecture desktop card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 12 GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 1.19 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 912.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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 350 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking19
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation22.70
Power efficiency13.77of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA102
Market segmentDesktop
Release date31 May 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores10240of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1365 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed1665 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors28,300 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology8 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)350 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate532.8of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power34.1 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs112of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs320of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores320of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores80of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length285 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1188 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth912.4 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.2
CUDA8.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 3080 Ti 70.31

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

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3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

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3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

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3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

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3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

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GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

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3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

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GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD217
1440p142
4K98

Cost per frame, $

1080p5.53
1440p8.44
4K12.23

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 219

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 140−150
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 120−130
Battlefield 5 220−230
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 110−120
Cyberpunk 2077 184
Far Cry 5 110−120
Far Cry New Dawn 170−180
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
Hitman 3 120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn 250−260
Metro Exodus 150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 290−300
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 140−150
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 120−130
Battlefield 5 220−230
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 110−120
Cyberpunk 2077 160
Far Cry 5 110−120
Far Cry New Dawn 170−180
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
Hitman 3 120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn 250−260
Metro Exodus 150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 407
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 150−160
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 140−150
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 100
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 110−120
Cyberpunk 2077 146
Far Cry 5 110−120
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
Hitman 3 120−130
Horizon Zero Dawn 310
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 359
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 181
Watch Dogs: Legion 97

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 160−170
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 80−85
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 86
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 80−85
Cyberpunk 2077 99
Far Cry 5 80−85
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
Hitman 3 100−110
Horizon Zero Dawn 240
Metro Exodus 141
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 269
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 120−130
Watch Dogs: Legion 230−240

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 110−120

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 85−90
Far Cry New Dawn 65−70
Hitman 3 60−65
Horizon Zero Dawn 220−230
Metro Exodus 110−120
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 152

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 55−60
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 61
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
Cyberpunk 2077 50
Far Cry 5 50−55
Forza Horizon 4 120−130
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 161
Watch Dogs: Legion 59

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 75−80

Closest competitors

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is Radeon RX 6900 XT, which is slower by 1% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti:

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Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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