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GeForce RTX 3080
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VRAM
10 GB
CUDA
8,704
FP32
29.77 TF
Bandwidth
760.3 GB/s
TDP
320W
Boost
1710 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute29.77 TFLOPS28%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth760.3 GB/s42%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity10 GB31%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units8,70440%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency30/10052%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy21,600pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)10,980pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)3,120spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute148,800pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming60
Ray tracing61
AI / Compute62
Creator / 3D60
Power efficiency30
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 84 fps
1080p
127
1440p
83
4K
42
Counter-Strike 2avg 182 fps
1080p
286
1440p
179
4K
81
Fortniteavg 167 fps
1080p
276
1440p
150
4K
76
Battlefield 5avg 116 fps
1080p
141
1440p
120
4K
88
Far Cry 5avg 119 fps
1080p
136
1440p
131
4K
91
Valorantavg 313 fps
1080p
260
1440p
364
4K
315
Average FPS across all PC games
1080p
156fps
1440p
117fps
4K
90fps
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($699) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
1080p
$3.99
1440p
$5.36
4K
$7.73
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners love the massive leap in 4K gaming performance. The main gripe is the high power draw and heat output, plus the limited 10GB VRAM for newer titles.
Pros
- Beats any game at 4K
- Stays cool under heavy loads
- Ray tracing looks incredible
- DLSS makes old cards jealous
Cons
- VRAM size limits high-res textures
- Runs hot under sustained loads
- Noisy under heavy gaming
Supported technologies
Ray TracingDLSSNVENCAV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 8,704
- RT Cores
- 68
- Tensor Cores
- 272
- TMUs
- 272
- ROPs
- 96
- L2 cache
- 5 MB
Memory
- Size
- 10 GB
- Type
- GDDR6X
- Bus width
- 320-bit
- Bandwidth
- 760.3 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1188 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1440 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1710 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 29.77 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 29.77 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 164 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 465.1 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 320W
- Suggested PSU
- 600W
- Power connectors
- 1x 12-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- Length
- 285 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.5
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.0
- Vulkan
- 1.2
- CUDA
- 8.5
Verdict
Our verdict on the RTX 3080
The RTX 3080 is a high-end Ampere card that trades a modest ten gigs of VRAM for class-leading 4K rasterization speed.
Get it if you want a used high-end card for 1440p gaming that still holds up well for the price. Skip it if you need more than 10GB VRAM for modern games or ray tracing at 4K.
Buy it if…
- You want high-end 1440p gaming without spending on a 4080.
- You need a powerful card for VR sim racing or flight sims.
- You are building a fast PC for 4K video editing and rendering.
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