ION 2 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 popularity93not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation46.20no data
Power efficiency14.19no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGA102GT218
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2020 (4 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 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 MHz500 MHz
Boost clock speed1710 MHzno data
Number of transistors28,300 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)320 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate465.14.000
Floating-point processing power29.77 TFLOPS0.03424 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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
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--

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)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model6.54.1
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2N/A
CUDA8.51.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RTX 3080 91747
+12572%
ION 2 724

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2020 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 8 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 320 Watt 20 Watt

RTX 3080 has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

ION 2, on the other hand, has 1500% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 and ION 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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