GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

CORE STATE GF100

VRAM 1536 MB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Fermi

nm

PROCESS 40 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2010

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

geekbench_opencl

13,300

N/A

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

4,791

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 480

RTX 3080 12 GB

Core Specs

Shading Units

480

8,960 +1766.7%

Shaders

480

8,960 +1766.7%

TMUs

60

280 +366.7%

ROPs

48

96 +100.0%

SM Count

15

70 +366.7%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1260 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1710 MHz

GPU Clock

701 MHz

—

Shader Clock

1401 MHz

—

Memory Clock

924 MHz 3.7 Gbps effective

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

1536 MB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

1,536

12,288 +700.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

384 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

177.4 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

6 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

164.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,345.0 GFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

168.1 GFLOPS (1:8)

478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

70

Tensor Cores

—

280

Power

TDP

250 W

350 W

TDP (W)

250

350 +40.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

750 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Fermi

Ampere

GPU Name

GF100

GA102

Generation

GeForce 400

GeForce 30

Process Size

40 nm

8 nm

Transistors

3,100 million

28,300 million

Die Size

529 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

5.9M / mm²

45.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

—

1.4

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

CUDA

2.0

8.6

Shader Model

5.1

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

Outputs

2x DVI1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

499 USD

799 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 200

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 500

GeForce 40

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