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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: $313
Average Price: $469
Active Listings: 100

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: $967
Average Price: $1,784
Active Listings: 64

MSRP: $1,199

Specifications Comparison

Specification	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4080
FP32 TFLOPs	55th @ 29.77 TFLOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)	89th @ 97.4 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
FP16 TFLOPs	77th @ 238.2 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)	92nd @ 398.8 TFLOPs (Top Tier)(Top)
Tensor Core Count	68th @ 272 Cores (Mid Tier)(Mid)	73rd @ 304 Cores (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Memory Capacity (GB)	26th @ 10 GB (Entry Tier)(Entry)	72nd @ 16 GB (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s)	74th @ 760 GB/s (Mid Tier)(Mid)	70th @ 716.8 GB/s (Mid Tier)(Mid)
Int8 TOPs	55th @ 238.14 TOPs (Mid Tier)(Mid)	84th @ 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)	68th @ 549 FPS (Mid Tier)(Mid)	96th @ 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)	46th @ 70 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	86th @ 134 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (1440p)	26th @ 115 FPS (Entry Tier)(Entry)	89th @ 259 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
FurMark (GL) (1080p)	13th @ 141 FPS	92nd @ 357 FPS (Top Tier)(Top)
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