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General
| Manufacturer | Nvidia Nvidia |
| GPU Architecture | Nvidia Turing 12nm Nvidia Turing 12nm |
| Cores | 4352 CUDA CORES 3072 CUDA CORES |
| Base Clock | 1350 MHz 1650 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1635 MHz 1815 MHz |
| Transistor Amount | 18. 13.6 Billion |
| Texture Units | 272 192 |
| ROPs | 88 64 |
Memory
| Memory Size | 11 GB GDDR6 8 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Clock | 14000 MHz 15500 MHz |
| Memory Interface Width | 352-bit 256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 616 GB/s 496 GB/s |
Technologies
| DirectX® Version | 12 12 |
| G-Sync/FreeSync | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 1.2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.5 6.5 |
| SLI/Crossfire Ready | |
| VR Ready | |
| RGB Lighting | |
| Extra Technologies | NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) (Turing), Designed for USB Type-C and VirtualLink, Nvidia GPU boost, HDCP 2. 2, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Vulkan API, Game Ready Drivers, NVIDIA Highlights, NVIDIA Ansel, NVIDIA GeForce Experience, Real-Time Ray TracingNVIDIA Encoder (NVENC) (Turing), HDCP 2.2, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Vulkan RT API, Game Ready Drivers, NVIDIA GPU Boost, NVIDIA Highlights, NVIDIA Ansel, NVIDIA GeForce Experience, NVIDIA Adaptive Shading, NVIDIA DLSS, Tensor Cores, Ray Tracing Cores |
Connectivity
| Maximum resolution | 7680×4320 7680×4320 |
| Display Port | 1.4a 1.4 |
| HDMI | 2.0b 2.0b |
| USB-C | USB-C VirtualLink USB-C VirtualLink |
| Dual Link DVI | No No |
| Single Link DVI | No No |
| VGA | No No |
Requirements
| Interface | PCIe 3. 0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| PSU Recommendation | 650W 650 W |
| Graphics Card Power | 260W 250 w |
Dimensions
| Length | 10.5” (266.74mm) 10.5” (266.74mm) |
| Width | 2-Slot 2-Slot |
| Height | 4.556” (115.7mm) 4.556” (115.7mm) |
Extra Information
| Price (at release) | $1,199 USD $699 USD |
| Weight | 1kg 1kg |
| Released | 27 September, 2018 23 July, 2019 |
Nvidia RTX 3080 vs 2080 Ti: which 4K graphics card is better?
The new Nvidia RTX 3080 may still be almost impossible to get hold of, but as an indicator of what the next generation of 4K graphics cards have in store for us, it’s definitely one to watch for anyone looking to upgrade their PC in the coming months.
Indeed, we’ve already seen what kind of a leap it offers over the existing RTX 2080 and its Super-fied sibling in my Nvidia RTX 3080 vs 2080 showdown, but today I thought I’d take a closer look at how it fares against Nvidia’s previous top-end flagship, the RTX 2080 Ti, a card that has always cost at least £1000 / $1000 ever since it came out at the end of 2018. Can the £649 / $699 RTX 3080 pose any kind of threat to Nvidia’s best 4K best graphics card? Let’s find out via the medium of some lovely graphs.
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To test the RTX 3080 and the 2080 Ti, I put them head to head in my general games benchmarking suite, taking an average frame rate from either their own built-in benchmark tools or from my own repeated manual gameplay tests. The games includes Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Total War: Three Kingdoms, Final Fantasy XV, Monster Hunter: World, The Witcher III, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Metro Exodus and Forza Horizon 4.
For this particular test, I used the Nvidia Founders Editions of the RTX 2080 Ti and Asus’ TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 OC Edition, as these were the cards used in my individual GPU reviews.
I’ve also included my Nvidia Founders Edition RTX 2080 Super results, too, just as a point of comparison. All three cards ran at their default, out of the box clock speeds, so they should be fairly representative of their respective card categories. As for the rest of my PC specs, I tested each card with my trusty Intel Core i5-8600K CPU and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance LED RAM, because these are the standard components in my RPS Test PC.
I should note that newer, more powerful CPUs will be able to get more out of the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3080 at 1080p and 1440p resolutions, but I found that each card’s 4K results were pretty much identical regardless of whether I was testing them with my Core i5-8600K or Intel’s newer Core i5-10600K (which is pretty much just as fast as the Core i7-9700K, let’s not forget). This is because games are still GPU-bound at 4K, making your CPU less important overall. As a result, the key metric we’re looking at here — each card’s 4K performance — should be broadly what you can expect to see from any modern gaming PC.
RTX 3080 vs 2080 Ti: 4K benchmarks
Starting with our 4K Ultra results, you can see the RTX 3080 is already way ahead of the RTX 2080 Ti here, coming out in front in every game going. Some titles provide more of a boost than others, admittedly. Total War: Three Kingdoms is only a fraction smoother on the RTX 3080, as is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and in both cases you’re probably better off knocking the quality setting down a notch if you want a constant 60fps frame rate.
However, whereas the RTX 2080 Ti sometimes struggled to play all games at 60fps on max settings, the RTX 3080 really does bump almost everything up to near or over that hallowed 60fps mark (with the exception of Total War, of course). I was particularly impressed with how it handled Shadow Of The Tomb Raider’s tough SMAA x4 anti-aliasing setting at this resolution, as this has traditionally crippled Nvidia’s previous crop of RTX cards, as evidenced by the 30-40fps frame rates of both the RTX 2080 Super and the 2080 Ti.
The RTX 3080, though, can handle it quite comfortably, almost scraping past that all-important 60fps average.
It’s also much better equipped to deal with Final Fantasy XV’s various extra Nvidia settings, too. The results above don’t include any of these additional effects, but I was still able to get an average of 59fps with TurfEffects and HairWorks switched on with the RTX 3080 (with lows of 54), which dropped to just 50fps (with lows of 45) on the RTX 2080 Ti. Similarly, I didn’t even need to contemplate using Metro Exodus and Monster Hunter: World’s DLSS support to get a smooth frame rate with the RTX 3080, as its average frame rates were already lovely and smooth from the outset.
Let’s move on to each card’s 4K High benchmarks. I’ve removed Forza Horizon 4 and The Witcher 3 from this set of results as these were already perfectly playable on Ultra, but as you can see, the RTX 3080 still offers quite the boost over the RTX 2080 Ti here.
While the RTX 2080 Ti is perfectly capable of playing almost all of today’s big games at near-60fps speeds on High settings at 4K, the RTX 3080 pushes performance firmly over that 60fps line and well into the 70s and 80s depending on the game.
I’ve used the regular SMAA setting for Shadow Of The Tomb Raider here, just to show it is, in fact, playable at 4K on all three cards here, and how much faster the RTX 3080 is when it’s not having to cope with ludicrously demanding anti-aliasing options.
Final Fantasy XV also doesn’t include any of the extra Nvidia effects here, either, but needless to say, the RTX 3080’s extra horsepower here puts it in much better stead for adding in option such as TurfEffects, HairWorks, ShadowLibs and its tough VXAO setting without dipping below that 60fps mark. The same goes for Metro Exodus’s ray tracing support, too. Admittedly, both cards still need DLSS switched on to achieve steady frame rates at this resolution with ray tracing enabled, but while the RTX 2080 Ti’s average of 53fps with Ultra-fied ray tracing on High is admirable, it’s still got nothing on the RTX 3080’s 67fps average using the same settings.
Of course, both the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3080 are more than capable of playing games on 4K Medium settings, but I’d thought I’d include benchmarks for the remaining games that didn’t quite hit 60fps on High on the RTX 2080 Ti, just so we’ve got the full picture of how all three cards stack up here.
With the RTX 3080, you’re absolutely flying on Medium, filling up those high refresh rate monitors like nobody’s business as you push into the 90s and low 100s. The RTX 2080 Ti does a pretty decent job here with its 70-80-odd frame rates, but once again, the extra headroom you’re getting for adding in things like ray tracing and DLSS pales in comparison to what you’ve got with the RTX 3080.
RTX 3080 vs 2080 Ti: 1440p benchmarks
Speaking of high refresh rate monitors, the RTX 3080 also gives you a decent boost in this department when you’re playing on 1440p Ultra settings, too. Again, there are some games here where the boost isn’t quite as large as you’d expect, such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Total War: Three Kingdoms, but you’re still getting a boost of at least 10fps in a lot of cases, if not closer to 20fps — which isn’t too shabby, all things considered.
I should note, I haven’t included any 1080p results here, because, let’s be honest, no one should be buying any of these cards just to play games at 1080p.
There are plenty of GPUs that can do that for a fraction of the price of these expensive cards, such as the excellent AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, and you shouldn’t be spending upwards of £650 / $700 on a 1080p graphics card.
RTX 3080 vs 2080 Ti: Conclusion
So yes, the conclusion of this RTX 3080 vs 2080 Ti benchmark comparison is much the same as my RTX 3080 vs 2080 vs 2080 Super showdown. Namely, that the RTX 3080 offers quite a substantial leap in performance over Nvidia’s previous flagship GPUs, and its lower price of £649 / $699 compared to the RTX 2080 Ti’s £1000 / $1000+ makes it look like extremely good value.
At least it does right now, anyway. We still don’t know what AMD have up their sleeve with their upcoming Big Navi launch, for example, or how much they will cost by comparison, and we’re still awaiting the launch of Nvidia’s RTX 3070, too, which also promises RTX 2080 Ti-level speeds for even less than the RTX 3080. The RTX 3080 certainly sets a high bar for the next crop of 4K graphics cards — and will no doubt be a solid choice for anyone looking to play games on max settings at 4K at 60fps — but with so many «next-gen» graphics cards still to come at time of writing, I’d strongly advise holding fire on any potential upgrades until we’ve seen everything that Nvidia and AMD have to offer.
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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090 — how many years can you sit on the flagship without an upgrade
Gamers will always find a topic for debate.
Someone is dissatisfied with the drivers, accusing the manufacturer of far-fetched problems. Others pick up on other people’s misconceptions, talking about the incredible technological advantage of NVIDIA. As a result, many gamers make the wrong choice, which leads to the purchase of slower but more expensive graphics cards. In fact, there are other topics, for example, take the optimal price segment. Many are sure that you need to take the most expensive video card possible. Some target brands, while most gamers rely on tips from sellers and bloggers on the net. Someone argues about the advisability of buying budget models, telling us that there are no good games, which means it’s time to indulge in nostalgia. Well, we will study several flagships, and then we will try to draw small conclusions. nine0003
So, in 2018, you could buy the new super-flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. For the reference Founders Edition, NVIDIA asked for $1,200, while partners could sell you a base model for 1,000 evergreens.
Unfortunately, there were no generous manufacturers, and in Europe you could buy a novelty for no less than 1400 euros. The video card received 11 GB of video memory and seemed like a real gaming monster, pulling all the games in 4K resolution. Since this was the first series to support ray tracing, not everyone could dream of seeing this technology in its full glory, but the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti itself did not always cope with magical rays in 4K. The video card was expensive and not popular, but gamers and experts scolded Jensen Huang for his exorbitant greed. If these guys knew what would happen next, they would buy video cards with all their money, and then they would quietly mine Ether on them. nineThe 0003
GeForce RTX 4090 just came out with ultimate performance and a starting price of $1,600. Today it is impossible to meet a flagship at such a cost even in the USA, but the problem of rising prices is on the agenda at all. Both video cards are separated by a time period of 4 years, but we will try to understand how the tactic of buying the fastest video cards on the planet justified itself.
Imagine spending $1,500 on a flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in 2018. Tests conducted by the Testing Games team, the processor was Core i9-13900K, tracing disabled, display resolution set to 4K, but let’s move on to the results.
As you can see, the gaming market has undergone dramatic changes in 4 years. It seems that video cards are adding 30% in a couple of years, but this is not the case. In fact, in recent years, there has been a noticeable trend when flagships increase their performance much faster than the average ones. Simply put, the difference between the GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 4060 may not exceed two times, but the budget models are completely marking time in one place. For example, the GeForce RTX 3050 became the most inexpensive graphics card of the previous generation from NVIDIA, but in terms of performance it was on par with the GeForce GTX 1660 Super. If in 2023 Jensen Huang gives the green light to the GeForce RTX 4050, then it will turn out to be slightly faster than the GeForce RTX 3060, but these are already fantasies, while we are interested in competitive numbers.
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So does it make sense to buy a flagship graphics card? It seems to us that the answer depends on how often you change hardware, as well as on your ability to pay. To put it simply, if you are counting on the ultimate performance within 4 years, then you should stop dreaming, because nothing like this will happen. In a couple of years, your flagship will become obsolete, and after 4 years it will completely turn into dust, yielding to new products by almost 2.5 times. From this point of view, the segment under $600 looks much more interesting, offering, albeit not quite a reasonable price, but definitely affordable for most gamers. As for the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, today the flagship of 2018 is relevant only in 2K resolution. If that suits you, then you can sit out a couple more years. Well, enthusiasts should update every 2 years, because in any other case, you can no longer count on the ultimate graphics settings. nine0003
Why is Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti better than MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio?
- 3GB more VRAM?
11GB vs 8GB - 94.
5 GTexels/s higher number of textured pixels? more memory bandwidth?
616GB/s vs 448GB/s - 96bit wider memory bus?
352bit vs 256bit - 1200million more transistors?
18600 million vs 17400 million - 88 more texture units (TMUs)?
272 vs 184 - Has DPFP?
- Has USB Type-C?
Why is MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio better than Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti?
- GPU frequency 150MHz higher?
1500MHz vs 1350MHz - 7.39TFLOPS higher than FLOPS?
20.84 TFLOPS vs 13.45 TFLOPS - 33.9 GPixel/s higher pixel rate?
169.9 GPixel/s vs 136 GPixel/s - 30W below TDP?
220W vs 250W - 225MHz faster GPU turbo speed?
1770MHz vs 1545MHz - 1536 more stream processors?
5888 vs 4352 - Smaller 4nm semiconductors? nine0047 8nm vs 12nm
- 8 more ROPs?
96 vs 88
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CLECTION CLASS
1350MHz
GPUs.
turbo GPU
1545MHz
1770MHz
When the GPU is running below its limits, it can jump to a higher clock speed to increase performance. nine0003
pixel rate
136 GPixel/s
169.9 GPixel/s
The number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.
FLOPS
13.45 TFLOPS
20.84 TFLOPS
FLOPS is a measure of GPU processing power.
texture size
420.2 GTexels/s
325.7 GTexels/s
Number of textured pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second. nine0003
GPU memory speed
1750MHz
1750MHz
Memory speed is one aspect that determines memory bandwidth.
Shading patterns
Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors in a video card that are responsible for processing various aspects of an image.
texture units (TMUs)
TMUs take texture units and map them to the geometric layout of the 3D scene. More TMUs generally means texture information is processed faster. nine0003
ROPs render units
ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, such as writing the final pixel data to memory and for performing other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the appearance of graphics.
Memory
effective memory speed
14000MHz
14000MHz
The effective memory clock is calculated from the size and data transfer rate of the memory. A higher clock speed can give better performance in games and other applications. nine0003
maximum memory bandwidth
616GB/s
448GB/s
This is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored in memory.
VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of the graphics card.
More VRAM usually allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.
memory bus width
352bit
256bit
A wider memory bus means it can carry more data per cycle. This is an important factor in memory performance, and therefore the overall performance of the graphics card. nine0003
GDDR versions of
Later versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher data transfer rates, which improves performance.
Supports memory debug code
✖Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
✖MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio
Memory debug code can detect and fix data corruption. It is used when necessary to avoid distortion, such as in scientific computing or when starting a server. nine0003
Functions
DirectX version
DirectX is used in games with a new version that supports better graphics.
OpenGL version
The newer the OpenGL version, the better graphics quality in games.
version of OpenCL
Some applications use OpenCL to use the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing. Newer versions are more functional and better quality.
Supports multi-monitor technology
✔Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
✔MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio
The video card has the ability to connect multiple screens. This allows you to set up multiple monitors at the same time to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as a wider field of view.
GPU temperature at boot
Unknown. Help us offer a price. (MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio)
Lower boot temperature means the card generates less heat and the cooling system works better. nine0003
supports ray tracing
✔Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
✔MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio
Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows and reflections in games.
Supports 3D
✔Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
✔MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio
Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D screen and glasses).
supports DLSS
✔Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
✔MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio
DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI based scaling technology. This allows the graphics card to render games at lower resolutions and upscale them to higher resolutions with near-native visual quality and improved performance. DLSS is only available in some games.
PassMark (G3D) result
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This test measures the graphics performance of a graphics card. Source: Pass Mark.
Ports
has HDMI output
✔Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
✔MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming Trio
Devices with HDMI or mini HDMI ports can stream HD video and audio to an attached display.