GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti (66/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 36)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 66)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 36.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 66.0 Average 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 51935 75605
Night Raid 156537 199650
Port Royal 14890 23275
Solar Bay 109239 161489
Time Spy 21855 33000
Wild Life Extreme 48861 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 192 239
1080p Ultra 162 205
1440p Ultra 127 165
4K Ultra 76 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 18617413990 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 28621315485 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 1581409844 21319213861
Far Cry 6 16015113383 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 20013612699 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 1291058957 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 1411169352 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 254237183101 306276214111
The Witcher 3 21418513071 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 40055 69068
Face Detection (HP) 48657 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 10246 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 22830 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23532 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 4427 7905
Object Detection (SP) 13323 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 147241 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 298683 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2917 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 362.7 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 15.9 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 227.9 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.56 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 12.1 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 11.3 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 31024.6 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1080 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA102 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $1999 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released March 29, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1560 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1860 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 84 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 6MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 84 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 112
Shading Units 10752 10752
Tensor Cores 336 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 336 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 384-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1313 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 238 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 121 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1226 1397
GPU Compute 16494 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 450 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 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 208 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 625 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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