GeForce RTX 3080 and Rage XL - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080

Rage XL

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Rage 3 (1997−1998)

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

Rage 3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2020

August 1998

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1710 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1450 MHz

125 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

350 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

8 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8704

-

Power consumption (TDP)

320 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

465.1

0.13

Memory type

GDDR6X

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

10 GB

8 MB

Memory bus width

320 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

19000 MHz

83 MHz

Memory bandwidth

760.3 GB/s

664.0 MB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x VGA, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

6.0

CUDA

8.5

-

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

Shader Model

6.5

-

Vulkan

1.2

N/A