NVIDIA RTX 3080 Graphics Card

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 easily beats the RTX 2080 across all games and synthetic benchmarks by about 30-70 per cent. In some titles, it events goes ham and achieves 2x the performance. So there's little need to worry over there. It's even cooler than previous gen reference cards. So there's little reason to skip this generation. If you're looking for a flagship GPU to own, this is it. We're still going to wait for the AMD RDNA GPUS in the form of the RX 6000 series but by the looks of it, AMD has a tough job if it wants the performance crown.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is an enthusiast desktop graphics card made for gamers with hardware-accelerated ray-tracing support and is built on the NVIDIA Ampere microarchitecture. It is most likely going to be based on the 7nm TSMC process and the GPU at the heart of the RTX 3080 will be the GA102-200-K1-A1 variant of the GA102 GPU. The die area of the GA102 GPU is 627 mm² and the GPU houses over 40,000 million transistors. The core configuration of the GA102 is as follows:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Specifications

CUDA Cores: 4352
TMUs: 272
ROPs: 88
Tensor Cores: 544
Ray-tracing Cores: 136

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 will be using 10 GB of GDDR6X memory connected via a 320-bit memory interface. The Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 will have a base clock of 1410 MHz and a Boost clock of 1710 MHz. Memory clock for the massive 10 GB VRAM will be 2375 MHz. This gives the card a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 760 GB/s.

The Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is a double-slot graphics card and uses two 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Total power consumption would be about 320W.

NVIDIA RTX 3080 Price

The expected launch price for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is about USD 800 and that translates to an Indian price of about INR 70000 once local Indian taxes are accounted for.