NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 370

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD Radeon R9 370

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 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 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1710MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1127%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370

2.496 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon R9 370

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

1280

280

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.00 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.496 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

156.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

110W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Trinidad

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad PRO (215-0870020)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

212 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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