NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1710MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

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

7168 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +824%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

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

-

Compute Units

28

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

1792

280

TMUs

112

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

103.6 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

200W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 6-pin

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

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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