GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce 7900 GS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G71

GN20-E7 GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

May 2006

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1245 - 1710 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

780 - 1100 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

49 Watt

150 Watt (80 - 150 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

9.000

296.6

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1320 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

42.24 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2