NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

8464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +4686%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

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

1107 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

512bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

68

SM Count

30

8704

Shading Units

240

272

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

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

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

236W

700 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

GA102-200-KD-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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