130 FPS at 1440p across 9 games (anchored estimate) · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles
130 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti averages 130 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 224 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 79 FPS, a 2.8x 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 | 99 FPS | 79 | 6.75 GB | 332 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 109 FPS | 84 | 6.57 GB | 326 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 79 FPS | 65 | 9.49 GB | 322 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 153 FPS | 125 | 7 GB | 336 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 162 FPS | 104 | 5.29 GB | 332 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 224 FPS | 123 | 7.13 GB | 260 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 133 FPS | 101 | 9.84 GB | 329 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 124 FPS | 91 | 11.04 GB | 280 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 87 FPS | 73 | 7.05 GB | 332 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Ampere (GA102) |
| CUDA cores | 10,240 |
| VRAM | 12GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 384-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 912.4 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,665 MHz |
| TDP | 350 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2021-06-03 |
| Launch MSRP | $1,199 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti averages 130 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Nothing here is a measurement of this card. It is an anchored estimate built from the cards we have run ourselves, on the identical suite.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #16 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 105% | 136 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT | 102% | 132 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 102% | 132 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE | 101% | 131 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 100% | 130 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE | 97% | 126 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB | 96% | 125 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super | 96% | 125 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | 94% | 122 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| 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.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full codebase review | 12.8 min | 64.96 Wh | measured |
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B).
This card is $1,199 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.121/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.145/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 8,258 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 | $106 | 11.3 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $424 | 2.8 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $1,272 | 11.3 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.