NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

8848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +9019%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce 8800 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

14

8960

Shading Units

112

280

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

125W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G92

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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