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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is a Desktop video accelerator from NVIDIA. It began to be released in January 2022. The GPU has a boost frequency of 1710MHz. It also has a memory frequency of 1188MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

Top Desktop GPU: 47

Basic

Label Name
NVIDIA
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
January 2022
Model Name
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Generation
GeForce 30
Base Clock
1260MHz
Boost Clock
1710MHz
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
8960
SM Count
?
Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.
70
Transistors
28,300 million
RT Cores
70
Tensor Cores
?
Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.
280
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
280
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
5MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Foundry
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
Architecture
Ampere
TDP
350W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
384bit
Memory Clock
1188MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
912.4 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
478.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
478.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
31.25 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.3
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
96
Shader Model
6.6
Suggested PSU
750W

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

88 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

150 Fps

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

191 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

62 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

75 Fps

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

106 Fps

Battlefield 5 2160p

109 Fps

Battlefield 5 1440p

188 Fps

Battlefield 5 1080p

194 Fps

GTA 5 2160p

96 Fps

GTA 5 1440p

145 Fps

GTA 5 1080p

175 Fps

FP32 (float)

31.25 TFlops

3DMark Time Spy

17935

Blender

5325

OctaneBench

568

Compared to Other GPU

48%
62%
90%
Better then 48% GPU over the past year
Better then 62% GPU over the past 3 years
Better then 90% GPU

SiliconCat Rating

47
Ranks 47 among Desktop GPU on our website
86
Ranks 86 among all GPU on our website
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
195 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
88 Fps
GeForce RTX 2080
NVIDIA, September 2018
45 Fps
Radeon RX 6700M
AMD, May 2021
34 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA, January 2019
24 Fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
289 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
150 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
85 Fps
GeForce RTX 2070
NVIDIA, October 2018
69 Fps
GeForce GTX 1070
NVIDIA, June 2016
49 Fps
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
307 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
191 Fps
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Mobile
NVIDIA, January 2022
131 Fps
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
NVIDIA, November 2017
102 Fps
GeForce GTX 1660
NVIDIA, March 2019
74 Fps
Cyberpunk 2077 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
87 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
62 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
NVIDIA, December 2020
40 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
30 Fps
Radeon RX 6600
AMD, October 2021
24 Fps
Cyberpunk 2077 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
183 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
NVIDIA, May 2021
79 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
75 Fps
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
NVIDIA, July 2019
44 Fps
Radeon RX 6600 XT
AMD, July 2021
35 Fps
Cyberpunk 2077 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
201 Fps
Radeon RX 6950 XT
AMD, May 2022
115 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
106 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB
NVIDIA, October 2022
60 Fps
Radeon RX 5700
AMD, July 2019
48 Fps
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
192 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
109 Fps
Radeon VII
AMD, February 2019
68 Fps
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
NVIDIA, July 2019
57 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
NVIDIA, December 2021
46 Fps
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
209 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
188 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
NVIDIA, January 2021
118 Fps
GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
NVIDIA, January 2021
101 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
NVIDIA, December 2021
84 Fps
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
215 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
194 Fps
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
NVIDIA, October 2022
166 Fps
Radeon RX 5700 XT
AMD, July 2019
139 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
NVIDIA, July 2019
124 Fps
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX 7900 XT
AMD, November 2022
173 Fps
98 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
96 Fps
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
NVIDIA, February 2019
59 Fps
GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile
NVIDIA, December 2021
39 Fps
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
NVIDIA, January 2022
187 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
145 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
NVIDIA, July 2019
90 Fps
GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
NVIDIA, January 2023
74 Fps
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
47 Fps
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
NVIDIA, January 2022
235 Fps
Radeon RX 5700
AMD, July 2019
176 Fps
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
175 Fps
GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA, January 2019
141 Fps
Radeon RX 550
AMD, April 2017
84 Fps
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 7900M
AMD, October 2023
37.747 TFlops
GeForce RTX 3090
NVIDIA, September 2020
34.174 TFlops
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
31.25 TFlops
RTX A5000-8Q
NVIDIA, April 2021
27.762 TFlops
RTX A4500
NVIDIA, November 2021
23.175 TFlops
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
36957
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
17935
Radeon RX 6800M
AMD, May 2021
11457
9099
GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile
NVIDIA, January 2019
7229
Blender
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
12577
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
5325
Radeon RX 6800M
AMD, May 2021
1424
Tesla M40 24 GB
NVIDIA, November 2015
589
Tesla K80
NVIDIA, November 2014
258
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4090
NVIDIA, September 2022
1341
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
NVIDIA, January 2022
568
Tesla P40
NVIDIA, September 2016
167
GeForce GTX 780
NVIDIA, May 2013
88
T550 Mobile
NVIDIA, May 2022
47