NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs ATI FireGL V8600

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

8640 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +6863%

30.64 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

8960

Shading Units

320

280

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

R600

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

159W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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