NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

8640 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +5703%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

320

280

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

165W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

R680

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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