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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:
FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.6

Pricing

Lowest Price: $322
Average Price: $464
Active Listings: 99

MSRP: $699

NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080

Release Date: November 16, 2022
MSRP: $1,199 USD
GPU Architecture: ada
Hardware-Accelerated GEMM Operations:
FP16 FP32 BF16 FP8 INT8 INT4 TF32 FP64 INT1
CUDA Compute Capability : 8.9

Pricing

Lowest Price: $870
Average Price: $1,668
Active Listings: 69

MSRP: $1,199

Specifications Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080
FP32 TFLOPs	57th @ 29.77 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)	90th @ 97.4 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
FP16 TFLOPs	78th @ 238.2 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)	92nd @ 398.8 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
Tensor Core Count	70th @ 272 Cores (Mid Tier)(Mid)	75th @ 304 Cores (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Memory Capacity (GB)	26th @ 10 GB (Entry Tier)(Entry)	70th @ 16 GB (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	75th @ 760 GB/s (Top Tier)(Top)	71st @ 716.8 GB/s (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Int8 TOPs	56th @ 238.14 TOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)	85th @ 389.91 TOPs (Top Tier)(Top)

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)	58th @ 363 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	87th @ 584 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
3DMark Wild Life Extreme (1080p)	66th @ 549 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	93rd @ 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)	45th @ 70 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	85th @ 134 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (1440p)	30th @ 114 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	91st @ 258 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (1080p)	15th @ 140 FPS	91st @ 355 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (VK) (4K)	9th @ 69 FPS	Data not available
FurMark (VK) (1440p)	27th @ 114 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	80th @ 243 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (VK) (1080p)	6th @ 105 FPS	Data not available
Quake II RTX (4K)	58th @ 60 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	85th @ 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