NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX 6000 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 6000 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2505MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

9216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +197%

91.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

30.64 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +106%

11762

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

5697

OctaneBench

RTX 6000 Ada Generation +96%

1094

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

556

RTX 6000 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

960.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

8960

568

TMUs

280

192

ROPs

96

568

Tensor Cores

280

142

RT Cores

70

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

481.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

1423 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

91.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

91.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

1423 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA102

AD102

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

350W

700 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 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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