Component comparison

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4090

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce RTX 4090 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 3080
  • + Normalized score (+7.8)
B GeForce RTX 4090
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + VRAM (GB) (+8 GB)
  • + Memory clock (MHz) (+500 MHz)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+274 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+5 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-4 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+48,000M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+19 mm²)
  • + CUDA cores (+7680)
  • + TMUs (+240)
  • + ROPs (+80)
  • + RT cores (+60)
  • + Tensor cores (+240)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+52.81 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+279.30 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+824.90 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+15.9)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+10972)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+10499)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+18997)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 3080
 Component B
GeForce RTX 4090
Release year 2021 2023 (+2)
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 16 GB (+8 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 1750 MHz 2250 MHz (+500 MHz)
Bandwidth (GB/s) 760 GB/s 1034 GB/s (+274 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 320 bit 384 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W 120 W (+5 W)
Lithography (nm) 8 nm 4 nm (-4 nm)
Transistors (M) 28,300M 76,300M (+48,000M)
Die size (mm²) 628 mm² 609 mm² (+19 mm²)
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 8,704 16,384 (+7680)
TMUs 272 512 (+240)
ROPs 96 176 (+80)
RT cores 68 128 (+60)
Tensor cores 272 512 (+240)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 29.77 TFLOPS 82.58 TFLOPS (+52.81 TFLOPS)
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 164.20 GPixel/s 443.50 GPixel/s (+279.30 GPixel/s)
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 465.10 GTexel/s 1290.00 GTexel/s (+824.90 GTexel/s)
Energy efficiency 26.0 41.9 (+15.9)
PassMark (overall) 16,075 27,047 (+10972)
3DMark Time Spy 10,752 21,251 (+10499)
3DMark Fire Strike 27,194 46,191 (+18997)
Geekbench OpenCL 167,014 —
Geekbench Vulkan 145,176 —
Normalized score 82.8 (+7.8) 75.0

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR ray_tracing

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 4090 Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 59 FPS 87 FPS 47.5% (B)
ARC Raiders 89 FPS 197 FPS 121.3% (B)
Alan Wake 2 55 FPS 109 FPS 98.2% (B)
Alone in the Dark 155 FPS 195 FPS 25.8% (B)
Anno 117: Pax Romana 55 FPS 96 FPS 74.5% (B)
Assassin's Creed Mirage 89 FPS 195 FPS 119.1% (B)
Assassin's Creed Shadows 33 FPS 77 FPS 133.3% (B)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 72 FPS 144 FPS 100% (B)
Atlas Fallen 117 FPS 182 FPS 55.6% (B)
Atomic Heart 85 FPS 144 FPS 69.4% (B)
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora 60 FPS 114 FPS 90% (B)
Back 4 Blood 235 FPS 309 FPS 31.5% (B)
Baldur's Gate 3 90 FPS 123 FPS 36.7% (B)
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 170 FPS 30.8% (B)
Black Myth: Wukong 44 FPS 67 FPS 52.3% (B)
Borderlands 3 95 FPS 162 FPS 70.5% (B)
Borderlands 4 38 FPS 55 FPS 44.7% (B)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 74 FPS 155 FPS 109.5% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 106 FPS 147 FPS 38.7% (B)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 94 FPS 155 FPS 64.9% (B)
Civilization 7 132 FPS 161 FPS 22% (B)
Company of Heroes 3 114 FPS 235 FPS 106.1% (B)
Control 82 FPS 184 FPS 124.4% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 212 FPS 300 FPS 41.5% (B)
Counter-Strike 2 169 FPS 219 FPS 29.6% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 121 FPS 147 FPS 21.5% (B)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 83 FPS 98 FPS 18.1% (B)
Dead Island 2 158 FPS 190 FPS 20.3% (B)
Dead Space Remake 73 FPS 130 FPS 78.1% (B)
Death Stranding 84 FPS 167 FPS 98.8% (B)
Diablo 4 181 FPS 361 FPS 99.4% (B)
Doom: The Dark Ages 53 FPS 106 FPS 100% (B)
Dota 2 134 FPS 199 FPS 48.5% (B)
Dragon's Dogma 2 57 FPS 71 FPS 24.6% (B)
Dying Light 2 87 FPS 145 FPS 66.7% (B)
EA Sports FC 24 149 FPS 179 FPS 20.1% (B)
EA Sports WRC 88 FPS 117 FPS 33% (B)
Elden Ring 59 FPS 60 FPS 1.7% (B)
Elex 2 88 FPS 116 FPS 31.8% (B)
Enshrouded 55 FPS 94 FPS 70.9% (B)
Escape from Tarkov 120 FPS 120 FPS ≈
F1 2020 162 FPS 344 FPS 112.3% (B)
F1 2021 156 FPS 276 FPS 76.9% (B)
F1 22 195 FPS 199 FPS 2.1% (B)
F1 23 184 FPS 152 FPS +21.1% (A)
F1 24 176 FPS 216 FPS 22.7% (B)
F1 25 150 FPS 203 FPS 35.3% (B)
Far Cry 5 129 FPS 173 FPS 34.1% (B)
Far Cry 6 65 FPS 103 FPS 58.5% (B)
Far Cry New Dawn 68 FPS 145 FPS 113.2% (B)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 56 FPS 122 FPS 117.9% (B)
Final Fantasy XVI 61 FPS 109 FPS 78.7% (B)
Fortnite 160 FPS 300 FPS 87.5% (B)
Forza Horizon 4 194 FPS 250 FPS 28.9% (B)
Forza Horizon 5 152 FPS 281 FPS 84.9% (B)
Forza Horizon 6 57 FPS 94 FPS 64.9% (B)
GRID Legends 131 FPS 190 FPS 45% (B)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 137 FPS 154 FPS 12.4% (B)
Ghost of Tsushima 71 FPS 116 FPS 63.4% (B)
Ghostwire Tokyo 149 FPS 234 FPS 57% (B)
God of War 91 FPS 167 FPS 83.5% (B)
God of War Ragnarök 95 FPS 178 FPS 87.4% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 124 FPS 158 FPS 27.4% (B)
Helldivers 2 86 FPS 136 FPS 58.1% (B)
High On Life 133 FPS 211 FPS 58.6% (B)
Hogwarts Legacy 77 FPS 45 FPS +71.1% (A)
Horizon Forbidden West 63 FPS 89 FPS 41.3% (B)
Horizon Zero Dawn 89 FPS 174 FPS 95.5% (B)
Hunt Showdown 110 FPS 262 FPS 138.2% (B)
Immortals of Aveum 53 FPS 108 FPS 103.8% (B)
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 69 FPS 136 FPS 97.1% (B)
Last Epoch 168 FPS 189 FPS 12.5% (B)
Lies of P 131 FPS 208 FPS 58.8% (B)
Lords of the Fallen 66 FPS 87 FPS 31.8% (B)
Mafia Definitive Edition 99 FPS 179 FPS 80.8% (B)
Metro Exodus 100 FPS 156 FPS 56% (B)
Once Human 113 FPS 197 FPS 74.3% (B)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Palworld 97 FPS 139 FPS 43.3% (B)
Pragmata 67 FPS 111 FPS 65.7% (B)
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown 307 FPS 356 FPS 16% (B)
Rainbow Six Extraction 218 FPS 346 FPS 58.7% (B)
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart 82 FPS 135 FPS 64.6% (B)
Ready or Not 121 FPS 158 FPS 30.6% (B)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 140 FPS 218 FPS 55.7% (B)
Returnal 88 FPS 159 FPS 80.7% (B)
Riders Republic 113 FPS 185 FPS 63.7% (B)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 36 FPS 74 FPS 105.6% (B)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 165 FPS 243 FPS 47.3% (B)
Skull & Bones 73 FPS 122 FPS 67.1% (B)
Sons of the Forest 77 FPS 88 FPS 14.3% (B)
Space Marine 2 78 FPS 74 FPS +5.4% (A)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 104 FPS 118 FPS 13.5% (B)
Star Wars Jedi Survivor 68 FPS 106 FPS 55.9% (B)
Star Wars Outlaws 40 FPS 83 FPS 107.5% (B)
Starfield 52 FPS 84 FPS 61.5% (B)
The Callisto Protocol 87 FPS 116 FPS 33.3% (B)
The Finals 152 FPS 175 FPS 15.1% (B)
The First Descendant 76 FPS 153 FPS 101.3% (B)
The Last of Us 76 FPS 103 FPS 35.5% (B)
The Quarry 97 FPS 177 FPS 82.5% (B)
The Witcher 3 191 FPS 394 FPS 106.3% (B)
The Witcher 3 149 FPS 290 FPS 94.6% (B)
The Witcher 3 v4 132 FPS 138 FPS 4.5% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 113 FPS 168 FPS 48.7% (B)
Total War Pharaoh 134 FPS 220 FPS 64.2% (B)
Until Dawn 61 FPS 104 FPS 70.5% (B)
Valorant 220 FPS 350 FPS 59.1% (B)
Watch Dogs Legion 80 FPS 131 FPS 63.8% (B)
X-Plane 11.11 66 FPS 78 FPS 18.2% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 112 FPS 167 FPS 49.1% (B)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4090 wins 21 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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