Tesla K80m 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 popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation46.29no data
Power efficiency14.01no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameGA102GK210
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)17 November 2014 (10 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 cores87042x 2496
Core clock speed1440 MHz562 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHz824 MHz
Number of transistors28,300 million7,100 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate465.12x 182.2 billion/sec
Floating-point processing power29.77 TFLOPSno data
ROPs962x 48
TMUs2722x 208
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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length285 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 8-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 typeGDDR6XGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount10 GB2x 12 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed1188 MHz5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth760.3 GB/s2x 240.6 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 DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12.0 (11_1)
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 17 November 2014
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 320 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 3080 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla K80m, on the other hand, has 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 and Tesla K80m. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 is a desktop card while Tesla K80m is a workstation one.


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