GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2
CORE STATE
G71
VRAM
512 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
110 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Curie
PROCESS
90 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2006
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1710 MHz
TDP
350 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
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DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
7900 GX2
RTX 3080 12 GB
Core Specs
Shading Units
—
8,960
Shaders
—
8,960
TMUs
24
280
+1066.7%
ROPs
16
96
+500.0%
SM Count
—
70
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1710 MHz
GPU Clock
500 MHz
—
Memory Clock
600 MHz
1200 Mbps effective
1188 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
512 MB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
512
12,288
+2300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR3
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
38.40 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
—
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
—
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
—
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
—
478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
70
Tensor Cores
—
280
Power
TDP
110 W
350 W
TDP (W)
110
350
+218.2%
Suggested PSU
300 W
750 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Curie
Ampere
GPU Name
G71
GA102
Generation
GeForce 7 PCIe
(7900)
GeForce 30
Process Size
90 nm
8 nm
Transistors
278 million
28,300 million
Die Size
196 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
1.4M / mm²
45.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
2.1.2 (full)
3.x (partial)
4.6
Vulkan
—
1.4
OpenCL
—
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
3.0
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
312 mm
12.3 inches
285 mm
11.2 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
2x DVI1x S-Video
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
599 USD
799 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 6 PCIe
GeForce 20
Successor
GeForce 8
GeForce 40