GeForce 256 DDR vs RTX 3080

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking26not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation46.30no data
Power efficiency14.02no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameGA102NV10 A3
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)23 December 1999 (25 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8704no data
Core clock speed1440 MHz120 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million17 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm220 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Wattno data
Texture fill rate465.10.48
Floating-point processing power29.77 TFLOPSno data
ROPs964
TMUs2724
Tensor Cores272no data
Ray Tracing Cores68no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16AGP 4x
Length285 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6XDDR
Maximum RAM amount10 GB32 MB
Memory bus width320 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz150 MHz
Memory bandwidth760.3 GB/s4.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x VGA
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)7.0
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.2
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 23 December 1999
Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 8 nm 220 nm

RTX 3080 has an age advantage of 20 years, a 31900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce 256 DDR. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
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