Averages 100 FPS at 1440p over our 12-game suite, first-party measured · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles
100 Avg FPS ✓ Measured
These are our own numbers. 12 games, one bench, one card, with the capture published for each result. Across our 12-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 averages 100 FPS. The ceiling is F1 2022 at 177 FPS; the floor is The Last of Us Part I at 58 FPS, a 3.1x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles. Under load we logged a peak of 321W against the 320W rating.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor used 9.21GB of the 10GB. That's how close this card runs to its limit in 2026 titles. F1 2022's 1% lows were the weak spot in my runs. These gaming numbers came off my own test bench: a Ryzen 7 7800X3D system, identical settings on every card, with a capture kept for every run. Everything here was double-checked before it went up.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atomic Heart 1440p · Atomic | 130 FPS | 88 | 6.02 GB | 321 W | ✓ Measured |
| Call of Duty: MW2 1440p · Extreme | 85 FPS | 67 | 7.81 GB | 318 W | ✓ Measured |
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 92 FPS | 73 | 5.97 GB | 318 W | ✓ Measured |
| Dying Light 2 1440p · High Quality | 104 FPS | 92 | 4.33 GB | 315 W | ✓ Measured |
| Elden Ring 1440p · Maximum | 104 FPS | 59 | 4.37 GB | 315 W | ✓ Measured |
| F1 2022 1440p · Ultra High | 177 FPS | 95 | 7.16 GB | 318 W | ✓ Measured |
| Forza Horizon 5 1440p · Extreme | 99 FPS | 84 | 8.25 GB | 313 W | ✓ Measured |
| Hogwarts Legacy 1440p · Ultra | 78 FPS | 42 | 8.59 GB | 313 W | ✓ Measured |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 101 FPS | 74 | 6.31 GB | 313 W | ✓ Measured |
| Resident Evil 4 Remake 1440p · Maximum | 107 FPS | 85 | 7.87 GB | 321 W | ✓ Measured |
| Star Wars Jedi: Survivor 1440p · Epic | 67 FPS | 44 | 9.21 GB | 319 W | ✓ Measured |
| The Last of Us Part I 1440p · Ultra | 58 FPS | 37 | 8.99 GB | 307 W | ✓ Measured |
| Architecture | Ampere (GA102) |
| CUDA cores | 8,704 |
| VRAM | 10GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 320-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 760 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,710 MHz |
| TDP | 320 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2020-09-17 |
| Launch MSRP | $699 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 averages 100 FPS at 1440p on our suite. These are our own numbers. 12 games, one bench, one card, with the capture published for each result.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #28 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | 110% | 110 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | 104% | 104 | |
| NVIDIA Titan RTX | 104% | 104 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition | 100% | 100 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 100% | 100 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | 99% | 99 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT | 94% | 94 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 | 89% | 89 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super | 85% | 85 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 28,300 million |
| Die size | 628.4 mm² |
| Fabricated by | Samsung |
| Transistor density | 45 million per mm² |
Denser than 49% of the 76 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
Can't run: 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film, narrated (needs Qwen3 32B), 10 short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 40-product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Full codebase review (needs Qwen2.5-Coder 14B), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), 100-photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 100-photo restore and enlarge (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev).
This card is $699 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.029/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.035/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 20,086 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $25 | 27.5 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $102 | 6.9 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $305 | 2.3 years |
At hobby usage this card is very unlikely to pay for itself before it is superseded. Rent it. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.