NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 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 RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (320W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +2293%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

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GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 500

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

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

16

SM Count

68

512

Shading Units

8704

64

TMUs

272

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W

TDP

320W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GA102

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

520 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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