GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon HD 8970 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
8192 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+799%
34100
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
3789
Graphics Card
May 2021
Release Date
Jan 2013
GeForce 30
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
912.4GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
80
SM Count
-
10240
Shading Units
2048
320
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
320
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
6 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
186.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
34.10 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
34.10 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
250W
750 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102-225-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
