NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 690 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 690 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 68% (1710MHz vs 1019MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 690

3.13 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +878%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 690

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1019 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

70

1536

Shading Units

8960

128

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

32.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

130.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

3.130 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

130.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

350W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA102

GK104-355-A2

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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