NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has 10496 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.70 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 35.58 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition has 3072 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 11.15 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 82 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 48 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
GA102-300-A1 GPU Chip TU104
Ampere Architecture Turing
82 Streaming Multiprocessors 48
10496 Shader 3072
112 Render Output Units 64
328 Texture Units 192
82 Raytracing Cores 48

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is equipped with a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.219 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.938GHz.

24 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.219 GHz Memory Clock 1.938 GHz
19.5 Gbps Memory Speed 15.5 Gbps
936 GB/s Memory bandwidth 496 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has a turbo clock of 1.695 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition is 1.815 GHz.

1.395 GHz Base Clock 1.650 GHz
1.695 GHz Boost Clock 1.815 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 89 °C.

350 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) 280 W
93 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 110 mm Fan 1 2 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
37 dB Noise (Load) 41 dB

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

313 mm Length 270 mm
138 mm Height 116 mm
-- Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition was released in Q3/2020.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

900-1G136-2510-000 Part-no --
Q3/2020 Release date Q3/2019
1,499 $ Launch Price 739 $
8 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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