GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

CORE STATE GP104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1733 MHz

TDP 180 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Pascal

nm

PROCESS 16 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

VS

NVIDIA

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

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,560

4,791

geekbench_metal

23,824

N/A

geekbench_opencl

55,724

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

65,164

N/A

passmark_directx_10

93

N/A

passmark_directx_11

124

N/A

passmark_directx_12

55

N/A

passmark_directx_9

211

N/A

passmark_g2d

888

N/A

passmark_g3d

15,586

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

7,614

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1080

RTX 3080 12 GB

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,560

8,960 +250.0%

Shaders

2,560

8,960 +250.0%

TMUs

160

280 +75.0%

ROPs

64

96 +50.0%

SM Count

20

70 +250.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1260 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz 10 Gbps effective

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

8 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

8,192

12,288 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5X

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

320.3 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

164.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

8.873 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

277.3 GFLOPS (1:32)

478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

138.6 GFLOPS (1:64)

30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

70

Tensor Cores

—

280

Power

TDP

180 W

350 W

TDP (W)

180

350 +94.4%

Suggested PSU

450 W

750 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Pascal

Ampere

GPU Name

GP104

GA102

Generation

GeForce 10

GeForce 30

Process Size

16 nm

8 nm

Transistors

7,200 million

28,300 million

Die Size

314 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

22.9M / mm²

45.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

6.1

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

285 mm 11.2 inches

Height

112 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

599 USD

799 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 900

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 40

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