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GeForce RTX 3080

Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 30 series · launched September 2020

Launch price
$699
≈ $893 in 2026 dollars
Blender 4.x render score
4,516
#18 of 103 scored graphics cards
Memory
10 GB
GDDR6X · 320-bit
Rated power
320 W

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Launch price in today's dollars

The GeForce RTX 3080 launched at $699 in 2020. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $893 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 28% rise over 6 years. At its launch price that is 646 Blender points per $100.

Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2020 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.

Blender rendering score

Median score 4,516 (middle half of runs 4,341–4,697) across 2,630 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #18 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #4 of 10 in the GeForce RTX 30 series.

This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.

Specifications

VendorNvidia
SeriesGeForce RTX 30 series
LaunchedSeptember 2020
Launch price$699
ArchitectureAmpere
ChipGA102-200-KD-A1
Memory10 GB
Memory typeGDDR6X
Memory bus320-bit
Memory bandwidth760.3 GB/s
Core clock1,440 MHz (boost 1,710 MHz)
FP32 compute29.77 TFLOPS
Rated power320 W (TDP)
Transistors28.3 billion
Die size628.4 mm²
Bus interfacePCIe 4 x16
Tier80-class

The Nvidia 80-class over time

Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.

PartYearLaunch priceIn 2026 $Blender
GeForce GTX 7802013$649$922—
GeForce GTX 780 Ti2013$699$993—
GeForce GTX 9802014$549$767296
GeForce GTX 980 Ti2015$649$906505
GeForce GTX 10802016$599$826577
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti2017$699$944828
GeForce RTX 20802018$699$9212,236
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti2018$999$1,3162,835
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER2019$699$9052,321
GeForce RTX 30802020$699$8934,516
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti2021$1,199$1,4645,317
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB2022$799$904—
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB2022$1,199$1,356—
GeForce RTX 40802022$1,199$1,3568,408
GeForce RTX 4080 Super2024$999$1,0548,415
GeForce RTX 50802025$999$1,0279,136

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