NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080. Release years: 2020, 2025. MSRP range: $699 · $999. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

10 GB VRAM320W TDP$699 MSRP2020

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Blackwell

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

16 GB VRAM360W TDP$999 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
vram gb	10	16
vram type	GDDR6X	GDDR7
tdp w	320	360
cuda cores	8704	10752

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
3DMark Fire Strike	—	79,045 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme	—	39,871 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra	—	21,262 points
3DMark Port Royal	12,742 points	24,924 points
3DMark Speed Way	5,089 points	9,039 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	4,442 points	8,938 points
3DMark Time Spy	15,477 points	32,642 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	7,950 points	16,244 points
3DMark Time Spy Graphics	—	32,701 points
PassMark G2D Mark	1,063 pts	1,407 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	25,024 pts	35,697 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy	—	1 rank

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.