GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1710MHz vs 902MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780

4156

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +637%

30640

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 780

2795

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +574%

18851

Blender

GeForce GTX 780

169

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +3179%

5543

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 780

88

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +531%

556

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

902 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

2304

Shading Units

8960

192

TMUs

280

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

GA102

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.5

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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