NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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.

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 57% higher pipelines: 4608 vs 2944
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 12 nm
Around 87% lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 215 Watt

Launch date	21 Mar 2023 vs 20 September 2018
Pipelines	4608 vs 2944
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 215 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1695 MHz
7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 105219 vs 96838
Around 66% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 908 vs 548
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18750 vs 15893

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1515 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	105219 vs 96838
PassMark - G2D Mark	908 vs 548
PassMark - G3D Mark	18750 vs 15893

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

96838

105219

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

548

908

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15893

18750

Name	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Geekbench - OpenCL	96838	105219
PassMark - G2D Mark	548	908
PassMark - G3D Mark	15893	18750
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		326.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3938.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		159.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1506.874
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6293
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1752

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Turing
Code name	AD106	TU104
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	20 September 2018
Place in performance rating	103	105
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$749.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1710 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	12 nm
Pipelines	4608	2944
Pixel fill rate	81.36 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	244.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	22900 million	13,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6