NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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 15 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 350W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

-

280

TMUs

8

96

ROPs

4

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

30W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

NV43

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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