NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD FirePro W8000

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 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 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +849%

30.64 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

1792

280

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

225W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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