NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX 4000 Ada Generation and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 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 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (2175MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (20GB vs 12GB)
Lower TDP (130W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
26.73 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+27%
34.1 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
14340
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+36%
19629
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
6708
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+49%
10032
3DMark Speed Way
RTX 4000 Ada Generation
3666
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+45%
5330
Graphics Card
Aug 2023
Release Date
May 2021
Workstation Ada
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
1365 MHz
2175 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 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
-
-
-
48
SM Count
80
6144
Shading Units
10240
192
TMUs
320
64
ROPs
112
192
Tensor Cores
320
48
RT Cores
80
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
139.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
186.5 GPixel/s
417.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
532.8 GTexel/s
26.73 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
34.10 TFLOPS
26.73 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
34.10 TFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
532.8 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
-
GPU Variant
GA102-225-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
