NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 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 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (1710MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

8640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +6040%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

320

280

TMUs

20

96

ROPs

8

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Oland

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

77 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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