NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 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 10 years late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +978%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

2.842 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 30

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

8960

Shading Units

1536

280

TMUs

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

88.80 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.842 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

710.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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

Board Design

350W

TDP

185W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 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

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