The GeForce RTX 3080 is a desktop graphics card by NVIDIA. It launched in Q3 2020 with a suggested retail price of $699. Its GA102 chip that powers the GPU uses the Ampere architecture and is fabricated on the 8 nm process.

This GPU is paired with 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. Its 1,188 MHz memory clock and 320 bit interface gives it a bandwidth of 760.3 Gb/s. This impacts how much data it can store, and how fast it transfers the data to and from memory.

The RTX 3080 is a dual slot graphics card, taking up 2 PCIe slots. It supports HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a display ports. This desktop card has a TDP of 320 W. NVIDIA recommends using a power supply of at least 700 W with this card. A power supply lower than this might result in system crashes and potentially damage your hardware.

The GeForce RTX 3080 has the 23rd highest 3DMark 11 Performance GPU score among the 540 benchmarked GPUs in our database. It achieves 51.19% of the performance of the best benchmarked GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Its 53,713 score and $699 launch price (MSRP) gives it a performance per dollar of 76.84. This is the 40th best in value for the 3DMark 11 Performance GPU benchmark.