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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080

Compare specifications, gaming benchmarks, and prices for these two GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Release Date: September 17, 2020
MSRP: $699 USD
GPU Architecture: Ampere
Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
FP64 FP32 TF32 BF16 FP16 FP8 FP4 INT8 INT4
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.6

Pricing

Lowest Price: $393
Average Price: $835
Active Listings: 75

MSRP: $699

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080

Release Date: November 16, 2022
MSRP: $1,199 USD
GPU Architecture: ada
Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
FP64 FP32 TF32 BF16 FP16 FP8 FP4 INT8 INT4
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.9

Pricing

Lowest Price: $1,170
Average Price: $1,981
Active Listings: 34

MSRP: $1,199

Specifications Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080
FP32 TFLOPs	46th @ 29.77 TFLOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)	65th @ 48.7 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FP16 TFLOPs	61st @ 238.2 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)	76th @ 389.8 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
Tensor Core Count	58th @ 272 Cores (Mid Tier)(Mid)	63rd @ 304 Cores (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Memory Capacity (GB)	23rd @ 10 GB	60th @ 16 GB (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	65th @ 760 GB/s (Mid Tier)(Mid)	62nd @ 716.8 GB/s (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Int8 TOPs	44th @ 238.14 TOPs (Entry Tier)(Entry)	70th @ 389.91 TOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FP8 TFLOPs	Data not available	52nd @ 389.91 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)
FP4 TFLOPs	Data not available	Data not available

Gaming Benchmarks Comparison

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (4K)	51st @ 193 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	90th @ 313 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1440p)	56th @ 363 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	88th @ 584 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1080p)	66th @ 549 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	94th @ 835 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Counter-Strike 2 (4K)	25th @ 122 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	75th @ 224 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Counter-Strike 2 (1440p)	36th @ 222 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	82nd @ 310 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Counter-Strike 2 (1080p)	Data not available	85th @ 403 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (4K)	49th @ 70 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	87th @ 133 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (1440p)	34th @ 114 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	89th @ 260 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (1080p)	18th @ 140 FPS	92nd @ 353 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (VK) (4K)	43rd @ 67 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	83rd @ 123 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (VK) (1440p)	35th @ 111 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	89th @ 250 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (VK) (1080p)	21st @ 139 FPS	91st @ 355 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Quake II RTX (4K)	61st @ 60 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	86th @ 84 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
Quake II RTX (1440p)	89th @ 94 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)	Data not available
Quake II RTX (1080p)	88th @ 138 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)	Data not available

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