NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

8576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (197W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +7652%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

16

8704

Shading Units

128

272

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

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

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

320W

TDP

197W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G92

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-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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