NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

8720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +4826%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1107 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

30

8960

Shading Units

240

280

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

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

19.26 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

236W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GT200

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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