NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 2000 Max-Q Ada Generation

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2022
Mar 2023
Generation
GeForce 30
Quadro Ada-M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1260 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1455 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
2000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
256.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
70
24
Shading Units
8960
3072
TMUs
280
96
ROPs
96
48
Tensor Cores
280
96
RT Cores
70
24
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
12 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
69.84 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
139.7 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
8.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
8.940 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
139.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA102
AD107
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
18.9 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
159 mm²

Board Design

TDP
350W
35W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None

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
6.7