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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. All released in 2020. MSRP range: $699 · $1,499. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
vram gb 1024
vram type GDDR6XGDDR6X
tdp w 320350
cuda cores 870410496

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.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
3DMark Port Royal 12,742 points15,039 points
3DMark Speed Way 5,089 points5,075 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 4,442 points5,340 points
3DMark Time Spy 15,477 points18,824 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 7,950 points—
PassMark G2D Mark 1,063 pts1,069 pts
PassMark G3D Mark 25,024 pts26,546 points

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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

  • llama2:7b: 139.7 tok/s
  • llama2:7b: 139.7 tok/s
  • llama2:7b: 139.7 tok/s

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

  • qwen3:35b-a3b: 135.7 tok/s
  • qwen3.6-35b-a3b: 120.0 tok/s
  • qwen3.5-35b-a3b: 112.0 tok/s

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