NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 460

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD Radeon RX 460

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 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 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1710MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1325%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460

2.15 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +989%

18801

Radeon RX 460

1725

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +2833%

88

Radeon RX 460

3

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1158%

151

Radeon RX 460

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +768%

191

Radeon RX 460

22

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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Radeon RX 460

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

8960

Shading Units

896

280

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.20 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.150 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.150 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

134.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Baffin

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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