GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3080 (53/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 35)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 54)
GeForce RTX 3080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 3080

53/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 54.0 Below Average 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 42472 75605
Night Raid 133004 199650
Port Royal 11597 23275
Solar Bay 85898 161489
Time Spy 17664 33000
Wild Life Extreme 37900 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 8.6 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 167 239
1080p Ultra 141 205
1440p Ultra 108 165
4K Ultra 64 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 15214511073 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 27420614982 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 1351177936 21319213861
Far Cry 6 14513811472 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 17011410480 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 109897444 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 119987843 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 21019515182 306276214111
The Witcher 3 18916511663 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 36822 69068
Face Detection (HP) 46956 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 9439 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 25471 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19892 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 4828 7905
Object Detection (SP) 12153 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 104704 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 246005 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2712 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 217.3 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 11 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 141.9 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.29 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.43 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 8.19 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 22538.5 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 780.7 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6800 XT —
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA102 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i7 12700Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released September 1, 2020 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1440 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 68 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 5MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 68 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 112
Shading Units 8704 10752
Tensor Cores 272 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 272 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 320-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 19000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1188 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 10 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 207 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 99 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1062 1397
GPU Compute 14058 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 628 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 320 W 360 W
Transistor Count 28 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 44.59 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 164 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 465 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-08-06(Henry) Cinebench 2024 —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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