Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and has 8704 texture shaders and 68 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which has 3072 shaders and 48 execution units.
Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
GA102-200-K1-A1 GPU Chip TU104
Ampere Architecture Turing
68 Streaming Multiprocessors 48
8704 Shader 3072
96 Render Output Units 64
272 Texture Units 192
68 Raytracing Cores 48

Memory

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom has 10 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 760 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 496 GB/s.

10 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.938 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.5 Gbps
760 GB/s Memory bandwidth 496 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom clocks in the base with up to 1.440 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G is 1.650 GHz.

1.440 GHz Base Clock 1.650 GHz
1.755 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.82 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom is 340 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 3 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

340 W TDP 250 W
370 W TDP (up) 280 W
93 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
3 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G has 0 -- fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type --
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
41-43 dB Noise (Load) 0 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 3x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom is 304 mm long, 136 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G is 290 mm long, 131 mm high and 40 mm wide.

304 mm Length 290 mm
136 mm Height 131 mm
-- Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom was released in Q4/2020 at a price of 729 $.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce 8G was introduced in Q3/2019 at a price of 929 $.

NED3080U19IA-1020P Part-no GV-N208SAORUS W-8GC
Q4/2020 Release date Q3/2019
729 $ Launch Price 929 $
8 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom
10 GB GDDR6X
37 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom
10 GB GDDR6X
74 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phantom
10 GB GDDR6X
123 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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