NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 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 10 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

8624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +2713%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 560

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2011

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 500

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

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

7

8960

Shading Units

336

280

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

5 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.34 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

45.36 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

90.72 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GF114

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

GF114-325-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

2.1

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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