NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 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 and 11 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 63.36GB/s)

8864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Lower TDP (143W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +13338%

30.64 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Feb 2007

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

792 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

320MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

63.36GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

8960

Shading Units

96

280

TMUs

24

96

ROPs

20

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

80 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.26 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.62 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

228.1 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G80

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

G80-100-K0-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

90 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.681 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

484 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

143W

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 Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1 (1.0)

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.0

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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