NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 560DX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX 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 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (1710MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1354%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

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

1175 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

70

SM Count

-

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

18.80 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

65W

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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

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

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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