125 FPS at 1440p across 9 games (anchored estimate) · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles
125 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Treat these as estimates. They are interpolated from our own measured results on comparable silicon, and they carry the estimate label until this card is benched. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB averages 125 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 215 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 75 FPS, a 2.9x 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 336W against the 350W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 96 FPS | 77 | 6.75 GB | 332 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 105 FPS | 81 | 6.57 GB | 326 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 75 FPS | 62 | 9.49 GB | 322 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 145 FPS | 119 | 7 GB | 336 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 153 FPS | 98 | 5.29 GB | 332 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 215 FPS | 118 | 7.13 GB | 260 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 126 FPS | 96 | 9.84 GB | 329 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 124 FPS | 92 | 11.04 GB | 280 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 82 FPS | 69 | 7.05 GB | 332 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Ampere (GA102) |
| CUDA cores | 8,960 |
| VRAM | 12GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 912 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,710 MHz |
| TDP | 350 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2022-01-11 |
| Launch MSRP | $799 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB averages 125 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Treat these as estimates. They are interpolated from our own measured results on comparable silicon, and they carry the estimate label until this card is benched.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #18 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 106% | 132 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 105% | 131 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 104% | 130 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE | 101% | 126 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB | 100% | 125 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super | 100% | 125 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | 98% | 122 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 | 97% | 121 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | 94% | 118 |
| Transistors | 28,300 million |
| Die size | 628.4 mm² |
| Process node | 8 nm |
| Fabricated by | Samsung |
| Transistor density | 45 million per mm² |
Denser than 81% of the 746 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.
This card is $799 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.151/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.181/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 4,409 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 | $132 | 6.0 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $529 | 1.5 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $1,587 | 6.0 months |
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.