NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS 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 14 years late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
8864 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+11506%
30.64 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1260 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
912.4GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
70
SM Count
12
8960
Shading Units
96
280
TMUs
48
96
ROPs
12
280
Tensor Cores
-
70
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
164.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
30.64 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
350W
TDP
105W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
G92
GA102-220-A1
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
324 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
1.1
6.8
Shader Model
4.0
