NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

8480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +2178%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 400

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

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

70

480

Shading Units

8960

60

TMUs

280

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

GA102

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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