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). #15 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | 105% | 137 | |
| 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 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti | 100% | 130 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB | 96% | 125 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT | 94% | 122 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super | 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 |
| 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.
| Workflow | Time | Energy | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full codebase review | 12.8 min | 64.96 Wh | measured |
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), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), 20 long-form articles (needs Llama 3.3 70B), 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 $1,199 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on RunPod is $0.180/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.216/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 5,551 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 | $158 | 7.6 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $631 | 1.9 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $1,892 | 7.6 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.