NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 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 4090 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 515.3 GTexel/s vs 465.1 GTexel/s
  • Around 12% higher pipelines: 9728 vs 8704
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 320 Watt
  • Around 60% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 10 GB
  • Around 68% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
  • Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27374 vs 25146
  • Around 11% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4911 vs 4420
  • Around 8% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 180351 vs 167014
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2023 vs 1 Sep 2020
Texture fill rate 515.3 GTexel/s vs 465.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 9728 vs 8704
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 320 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 10 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 27374 vs 25146
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4911 vs 4420
Geekbench - OpenCL 180351 vs 167014

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1440 MHz vs 1335 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1695 MHz
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1053 vs 982
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1440 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Boost clock speed 1710 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1053 vs 982

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
982
1053
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
27374
25146
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
4911
4420
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
180351
167014
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
PassMark - G2D Mark 982 1053
PassMark - G3D Mark 27374 25146
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4911 4420
Geekbench - OpenCL 180351 167014
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 457.414
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 6022.79
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 51.221
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 175.219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2381.93
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 34537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 34537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD103 GA102
Launch date 2023 1 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating 39 56
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1695 MHz 1710 MHz
Core clock speed 1335 MHz 1440 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 515.3 GFLOPS (1:64) 465.1 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 32.98 TFLOPS (1:1) 29.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 32.98 TFLOPS 29.77 TFLOPS
Pipelines 9728 8704
Pixel fill rate 189.8 GPixel/s 164.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 515.3 GTexel/s 465.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 320 Watt
Transistor count 45900 million 28300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 12-pin
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches
Length 285 mm, 11.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Width 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 10 GB
Memory bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 760.3 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 320 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X