NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

8608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +11483%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

8704

Shading Units

96

272

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

8

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

GT215

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

69W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.2

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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