L20 vs GeForce 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 popularity87not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation46.20no data
Power efficiency14.59no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA102AD102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)16 November 2023 (less than a year 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 cores870411776
Core clock speed1440 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate465.1927.4
Floating-point processing power29.77 TFLOPS59.35 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs272368
Tensor Cores272368
Ray Tracing Cores6892

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length285 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount10 GB48 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth760.3 GB/s864.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DisplayPort4x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 16 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 320 Watt 275 Watt

L20 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 380% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 16.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 and L20. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 is a desktop card while L20 is a workstation one.


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