NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 GTX 295 's Advantages

Lower TDP (289W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

8464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +4894%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

448bit

Memory Bus

320bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

68

240

Shading Units

8704

80

TMUs

272

28

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

289W

TDP

320W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

GA102

G200-401-B3

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

470 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

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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