NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
561 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
70
12
Shading Units
8960
1536
TMUs
280
48
ROPs
96
16
Tensor Cores
280
48
RT Cores
70
12
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
6 MB
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
8.602 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
GA10B
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
Foundry
Samsung
Samsung
Process Size
8 nm
8 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
Unknown
Die Size
628 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
350W
40W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
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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
8.6
Shader Model
6.8
6.8
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.