GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3080

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 10 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1710 MHz

TDP 320 W

BUS WIDTH 320 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

369

4,407

geekbench_metal

13,595

N/A

geekbench_opencl

28,528

167,014

geekbench_vulkan

31,001

145,176

passmark_directx_10

46

170

passmark_directx_11

71

207

passmark_directx_12

41

100

passmark_directx_9

143

258

passmark_g2d

764

1,054

passmark_g3d

9,638

25,086

passmark_gpu_compute

4,073

14,397

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 970

RTX 3080

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,664

8,704 +423.1%

Shaders

1,664

8,704 +423.1%

TMUs

104

272 +161.5%

ROPs

56

96 +71.4%

SM Count

—

68

Clocks

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

10 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

10,240 +150.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

320 bit

Bandwidth

224.4 GB/s

760.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

5 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

164.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.920 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

465.1 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

29.77 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

68

Tensor Cores

—

272

Power

TDP

148 W

320 W

TDP (W)

148

320 +116.2%

Suggested PSU

300 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

GM204

GA102

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 30

Process Size

28 nm

8 nm

Transistors

5,200 million

28,300 million

Die Size

398 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

13.1M / 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

5.2

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

111 mm 4.4 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

329 USD

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 20

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 40

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