NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 6144 vs 2944
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 26295 vs 22622
  • Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 9367 vs 6319
  • Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8604 vs 5714
  • Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 26295 vs 22622
  • Around 48% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 9367 vs 6319
  • Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8604 vs 5714
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 vs 29 January 2019
Pipelines 6144 vs 2944
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 26295 vs 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 9367 vs 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8604 vs 5714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 26295 vs 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 9367 vs 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8604 vs 5714

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 1110 MHz
  • Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1590 MHz vs 1545 MHz
  • 6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1380 MHz vs 1110 MHz
Boost clock speed 1590 MHz vs 1545 MHz
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
26295
22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9367
6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8604
5714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
26295
22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9367
6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8604
5714
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 371.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3552.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 31.212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 190.723
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1422.602
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 26295 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 9367 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8604 5714
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 26295 22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 9367 6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8604 5714
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 10134
PassMark - G2D Mark 812
PassMark - G3D Mark 15107

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ampere Turing
Code name GA104 TU104
Launch date 12 Jan 2021 29 January 2019
Place in performance rating 92 106
Type Laptop Laptop
Price now $699.99
Value for money (0-100) 37.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1545 MHz 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 1110 MHz 1380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 296.6 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 18.98 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 18.98 TFLOPS
Pipelines 6144 2944
Pixel fill rate 148.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 296.6 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 17400 million 13,600 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 448.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 12000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

GPU Boost
VR Ready