GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB sales on January 2022 at a recommended price of $1,199 . This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 8 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 20 GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 1.19 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 760.3 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 20 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2024) | |
| GPU code name | GA102 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | January 2022 (2 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,199 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB'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 20 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 10240 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1335 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1665 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 28,300 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 350 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 532.8 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 34.1 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 112 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 320 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Tensor Cores | 320 | of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 80 | of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB 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).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 285 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 12-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB: 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 type | GDDR6X | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 20 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1188 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 760.3 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB. 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 Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| HDMI | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.6 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB is Radeon RX 7700 XT.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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