NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS 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

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

8864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GS

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +11506%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2008

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

70

96

Shading Units

8960

48

TMUs

280

12

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GA102

G92-150-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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