Early NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Geekbench OpenCL benchmarks show that it is a powerhouse, but perhaps not a very efficient one

[Redaktion]

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 may offer considerably more performance than the RTX 2080, but it comes at the cost of efficiency, according to recent Geekbench OpenCL benchmarks. Still, the popular benchmarking website has shown once again that a mid-tier Ampere card can outperform Turing's flagship GeForce card.

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[BrendaEM]

It's not inefficient; they just want to sell you a Quadro.

[S.Yu]

It's not inefficient; they just want to sell you a Quadro.

I believe we're a year from the new Quadros.

[Quix]

It's not inefficient; they just want to sell you a Quadro.

No one is cross-shopping Geforces and Quadros. Either you need the "pro" driver support or you don't.

[Quix]

It's not inefficient; they just want to sell you a Quadro.

No one is cross-shopping Geforces and Quadros. Either you need the driver support or you don't.

[Spunjji]

"We would expect the RTX 3090 to achieve an even bigger lead over the RTX 2080 Ti, not least because of its huge price tag."

This made me chuckle.

The price is set by what people will pay, not relative performance. Relative performance is only one of the factors in what people will pay, and it's not even the most important one - especially not for a halo product.

[S.Yu]

It's not inefficient; they just want to sell you a Quadro.

No one is cross-shopping Geforces and Quadros. Either you need the driver support or you don't.

Well there's the Studio Editions so there can be cross-shopping, even from Nvidia.