NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (2175MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

26.73 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +14%

30.64 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

4737

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +17%

5543

OctaneBench

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

492

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +13%

556

RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jan 2022

Quadro Ada(x000A)

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

2175 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

160bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

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48

SM Count

70

6144

Shading Units

8960

192

TMUs

280

80

ROPs

96

192

Tensor Cores

280

48

RT Cores

70

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

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Theoretical Performance

174.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

417.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

26.73 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

26.73 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA102

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GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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