NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

8704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (108W vs 320W)

Score

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2005

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 7 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

-

272

TMUs

24

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G70

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GF-7800-GTX-512-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Curie

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

110 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.302 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

333 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

108W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

3.0

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