Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2022 Sep 2022
Generation GeForce 30 GeForce 40
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1260 MHz 2205 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz 2505 MHz
Memory Clock 1188 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 16GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR6X
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 912.4GB/s 716.8GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 70 76
Shading Units 8960 9728
TMUs 280 304
ROPs 96 112
Tensor Cores 280 304
RT Cores 70 76
L1 Cache 128 KB (per SM) 128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 6 MB 64 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 164.2 GPixel/s 280.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 478.8 GTexel/s 761.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 30.64 TFLOPS 48.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 30.64 TFLOPS 48.74 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 478.8 GFLOPS 761.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GA102 AD103
GPU Variant GA102-220-A1 AD103-300-A1
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Process Size 8 nm 4 nm
Transistors 28.3 billion 45.9 billion
Die Size 628 mm² 379 mm²
Board Design
TDP 350W 320W
Suggested PSU 750 W 700 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 12-pin 1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
CUDA 8.6 8.9
Shader Model 6.8 6.6