NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 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 GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

8832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +7817%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

70

128

Shading Units

8960

64

TMUs

280

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GA102

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

260 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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