NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

8944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +78464%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

0.039 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce 8400 GS PCI Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

16

280

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GT218

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

40W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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