NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Nov 2005

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 7 PCIe

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

68

-

Compute Units

-

Shading Units

8704

24

TMUs

272

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

-

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

-

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G70

GPU Name

GA102

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Curie

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

110 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.302 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

333 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

108W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

3.0

Shader Model

6.6

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