GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGA102C79
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)17 April 2007 (17 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 cores870416
Core clock speed1440 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Watt40 Watt
Texture fill rate465.13.600
Floating-point processing power29.77 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs964
TMUs2728
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 x16PCI
Length285 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6XSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount10 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width320 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1188 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth760.3 GB/sno data
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 DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 17 April 2007
Chip lithography 8 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 320 Watt 40 Watt

RTX 3080 has an age advantage of 13 years, and a 712.5% more advanced lithography process.

9300 + nForce 730i, on the other hand, has 700% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i. We've got no test results to judge.


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