NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile sales 12 January 2021. This is high-end Ampere architecture notebook card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 384.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 115 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance rating	14
Architecture	Ampere
GPU code name	GN20-E7 GA104
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	12 January 2021 (less than a year ago)

Technical specs

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores	6144	of 15360 (Radeon RX 7900 XT)
Core clock speed	780 - 1100 MHz	of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)
Boost clock speed	1245 - 1710 MHz	of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)
Number of transistors	17,400 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)
Thermal design power (TDP)	115 Watt	of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate	296.6	of 779.2 (Radeon RX 6900 XTX)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile: 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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)
Memory bandwidth	384.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile. 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

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	8.6

Benchmark performance

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

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 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.

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

1080p	128
1440p	89
4K	58

1920x1080
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	93
Cyberpunk 2077	100
Far Cry 5	126
Far Cry New Dawn	81
Hitman 3	156
Horizon Zero Dawn	108
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	126
Watch Dogs: Legion	107

1920x1080
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	79
Battlefield 5	140
Cyberpunk 2077	83
Far Cry 5	120
Far Cry New Dawn	96
Hitman 3	147
Horizon Zero Dawn	89
Metro Exodus	102
Red Dead Redemption 2	74
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	119
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	192
Watch Dogs: Legion	93

1920x1080
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	68
Battlefield 5	134
Cyberpunk 2077	72
Far Cry 5	114
Far Cry New Dawn	86
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	108
Watch Dogs: Legion	70

2560x1440
High Preset

Hitman 3	116
Horizon Zero Dawn	67
Metro Exodus	54
Red Dead Redemption 2	49
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	98
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	37

2560x1440
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	53
Battlefield 5	108
Cyberpunk 2077	43
Far Cry 5	105
Far Cry New Dawn	80
Watch Dogs: Legion	54

3840x2160
High Preset

Horizon Zero Dawn	41
Metro Exodus	38
Red Dead Redemption 2	32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	55
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	80

3840x2160
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35
Battlefield 5	67
Cyberpunk 2077	21
Far Cry 5	59
Far Cry New Dawn	58
Watch Dogs: Legion	32

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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