NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 64% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Launch date 2023 vs 1 Sep 2020
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 1290 MHz
  • Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1665 MHz
  • Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 556.0 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 41% higher pipelines: 10496 vs 7424
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1058 vs 930
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26669 vs 24981
  • Around 23% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5117 vs 4177
  • Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 191142 vs 160136
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1395 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed 1695 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate 556.0 GTexel/s vs 386.3 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10496 vs 7424
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1058 vs 930
PassMark - G3D Mark 26669 vs 24981
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5117 vs 4177
Geekbench - OpenCL 191142 vs 160136

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
930
1058
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
24981
26669
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4177
5117
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
160136
191142
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
PassMark - G2D Mark 930 1058
PassMark - G3D Mark 24981 26669
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4177 5117
Geekbench - OpenCL 160136 191142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 711.408
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 5528.565
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 62.812
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 228.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2431.277
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA102
Launch date 2023 1 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating 46 48
Launch price (MSRP) $1499
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1695 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 386.3 GFLOPS (1:64) 556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 24.72 TFLOPS (1:1) 35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 24.72 TFLOPS 35.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines 7424 10496
Pixel fill rate 133.2 GPixel/s 189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 386.3 GTexel/s 556.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 12-pin
Height 138 mm (5.4 inches)
Length 313 mm (12.3 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 Watt
Width Triple-slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 384.0 GB/s 936.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X