Quadro4 380 XGL vs GeForce RTX 3080

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	26	not rated
Place by popularity	93	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	46.24	no data
Power efficiency	14.24	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	GA102	NV18 A4
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	1 September 2020 (4 years ago)	12 November 2002 (22 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	8704	no data
Core clock speed	1440 MHz	275 MHz
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	28,300 million	29 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	320 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	465.1	1.100
Floating-point processing power	29.77 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	96	4
TMUs	272	4
Tensor Cores	272	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	68	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	285 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None

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 type	GDDR6X	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	10 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1188 MHz	256 MHz
Memory bandwidth	760.3 GB/s	8.192 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	8.0
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2	N/A
CUDA	8.5	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 September 2020	12 November 2002
Maximum RAM amount	10 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	8 nm	150 nm

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