NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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GeForce RTX 3080 Ti compared with GeForce RTX 4080

	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 3080 Ti	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 4080
Overview
Released
Released	June 2021	November 2022
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	Ampere	Ada Lovelace
Shader cores
Shader cores	10,240	9,728
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,670 MHz	2,510 MHz (better)
Architecture
Architecture	NVIDIA reference specifications. The photo shows PNY's stock-clock XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan; its cooler differs from the Founders Edition geometry below.	AD103; 76 Streaming Multiprocessors. Specifications describe NVIDIA's reference card; the photo shows PNY's original RTX 4080 VERTO Triple Fan, whose cooler and dimensions differ.
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4N; 45.9 billion transistors; 378.6 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	Second-generation RT Cores	76 third-generation RT Cores; 113 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	Third-generation Tensor Cores	304 fourth-generation Tensor Cores; 780 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	NVIDIA DLSS upscaling; no DLSS Frame Generation	DLSS 3.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	NVIDIA lists 1.37 GHz base and 1.67 GHz boost rounded to two decimal places; stock-clock PNY REVEL specifies 1365 MHz base and 1665 MHz boost	2.21 GHz on the current NVIDIA specification page; PNY's stock-clock VERTO lists 2,205 MHz base, while NVIDIA's Ada architecture whitepaper gives 2,505 MHz boost (current page rounds boost to 2.51 GHz)
Cache
Cache	–	65,536 KB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	12 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6X (better)
Memory bus
Memory bus	384-bit (better)	256-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	912 GB/s (better)	716.8 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	19 Gbps GDDR6X; 912 GB/s bandwidth verified by PNY's stock-clock REVEL specification	22.4 Gbps GDDR6X
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	350 W	320 W (better)
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 4.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3	3 × DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 × HDMI 2.1a; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320; HDMI supports 4K 120 Hz HDR or 8K 60 Hz HDR; DisplayPort supports 4K 240 Hz with DSC	4K at 240 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz with DSC and HDR
Power connector
Power connector	2 × PCIe 8-pin cables through the included adapter to 1 × 12-pin (Founders Edition)	3 × PCIe 8-pin cables through the included adapter, or 1 × 450 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable (Founders Edition)
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	750 W, based on NVIDIA's Intel Core i9-10900K test system	750 W; NVIDIA recommends another 36 mm of clearance for the power cable
Slot width
Slot width	2-slot (Founders Edition)	3-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	285 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)	304 × 137 mm, 3-slot; NVIDIA's system-clearance guide specifies 61 mm thickness (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	Seventh-generation NVENC and fifth-generation NVDEC; no hardware AV1 encoding	2 × eighth-generation NVENC, fifth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode