Driver for NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - downloading and installing it

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is a Display Adapters device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by NVIDIA. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_10DE&DEV_2206.

1. Install NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 driver. The archive contains version 31.0.15.2883 dated 2023-03-16 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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NVIDIA applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 704555384 bytes (671.92 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 97918 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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