GeForce RTX 3080 and GA100 - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080

GA100

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

GA100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

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Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

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Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

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Core clock speed

1450 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8704

8192

Power consumption (TDP)

320 Watt

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Texture fill rate

465.1

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Memory type

GDDR6X

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Maximum RAM amount

10 GB

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Memory bus width

320 Bit

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Memory clock speed

19000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

760.3 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

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HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

CUDA

8.5

8.0

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.5

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

N/A

NVENC

-

No Support

PureVideo HD

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VP10