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NVIDIA RTX 3080 12GB

12GB VRAM • 912 GB/s • 60 FP16 TFLOPS

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Specifications

VRAM
12 GB
Memory Bandwidth
912 GB/s
FP16 TFLOPS
60
TDP
350W
Architecture
Ampere
MSRP
$799

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