NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2020
Aug 2023
Generation
GeForce 30
Workstation Ada
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1440 MHz
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
2175 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
2250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
10GB
20GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
320bit
160bit
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
360.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
68
48
Shading Units
8704
6144
TMUs
272
192
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
272
192
RT Cores
68
48
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
5 MB
48 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
139.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
417.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
26.73 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
26.73 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA102
AD104
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
35.8 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
320W
130W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
4x 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
6.6
6.8

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
17,662
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
8,879
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