NVIDIA RTX 3080 specs and features CONFIRMED: Is this 30 Series graphics card worth buying?


The NVIDIA RTX 3080 has been announced as part of NVIDIA's new ‘30 Series’ of graphics cards, which will succeed the line of 2080, 2070, and other cards that have been on the market since 2018.

NVIDIA held a GeForce event on September 1 at 5 PM BST (9 AM PT), where we learnt all about the 3070, 3080 and 3090.

The 3080Ti was touted as the flagship of the three cards, even though the 3090 was described as a 'GRPG' in graphics and power.

We now know the pricing, the availability, and what the 3080 is capable of. Read on to find out all the details.

NVIDIA RTX 3080 Specs

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The holistic view - this is how the 3080 compares to the rest of the range.

NVIDIA RTX 3080 leak

The specs for the range of GeForce RTX 30 range leaked early, courtesy of Videocardz. You can view the info below:


RTX 3090
RTX 3080
RTX 3070
GPU
7nm GA102-300
7nm GA102-200
??nm GA104-300
Board
PG132 SKU 30
PG132 SKU 10
PG142 SKU 10
CUDA Cores
5248
4352
TBA
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1710 MHz
TBA
Memory
24GB GDDR6X
10GB GDDR6X
8GB GDDR6
Memory Bus
384-bit
320-bit
256-bit
Bandwidth
936 GB/s
760 GB/s
512 GB/s
TGP
350W
320W
220W

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NVIDIA RTX 3080 features - what do we know?

The ‘30 Series’ is based on the ‘Ampere’ architecture, so you can imagine the ray-tracing feature, first introduced in the ‘20 Series’, to be refined and shown in an even better prowess in recent and retro games.

Last year, the demo of ‘Quake II RTX’ showed ray-tracing in all its first-gen glory, so one can only imagine just how good the rendering of the ‘3080Ti’ will bring.

Alongside this, expect the ‘3080Ti’ and other cards in the ‘30 Series’ to have huge heaps of VRAM to handle the 4K textures and other features that it will be rendering at 60FPS and even-higher frame rates.

The ‘3080Ti’ is rumoured to have 12GB of onboard Video Memory, a huge amount that will be able to handle the amount of textures, ray-tracing and landscape of levels, alongside VR games that are only going to be growing in scope after the success of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’.

Alongside other rumours that the ‘3080Ti’ will be approximately 40% faster than the current ‘2070 Super’ with 21 teraflops of performance from the architecture, you are going to have a graphics card that can easily compete with the Series X and PlayStation 5. With that easily leap-frogging the GPU of the Series X, it’s a GPU that will future-proof your PC for at least the next eighteen months.

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