NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD FirePro W8100

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +626%

30.64 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 30

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

8960

Shading Units

2560

280

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

220W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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