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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is NVIDIA’s Ampere desktop graphics card with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory, 8,960 shading units and a boost clock of 1710 MHz.
Drawn from this part’s own specifications. No openly-licensed photograph of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB exists, so this is an illustration rather than a photograph.
Overview
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is NVIDIA’s Ampere desktop graphics card with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory, 8,960 shading units and a boost clock of 1710 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Shading units
- 8,960
- Base clock
- 1260 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1710 MHz
- Memory
- 12 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6X
- Memory bus
- 384-bit
- TDP
- 350 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- Not verified
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitectureAmpere | NVIDIA Architectureunder GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Shading units8,960 | NVIDIA CUDA Coresunder GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Base clock1260 MHz | Base Clock (GHz)under GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock1710 MHz | Boost Clock (GHz)under GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory12 GB | Standard Memory Configunder GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR6X | Standard Memory Configunder GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory bus384-bit | Memory Interface Widthunder GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| TDP350 W | Graphics Card Power (W)under GeForce RTX 3080 | nvidia.comSpecification page |
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Compare
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What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.