NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1905MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (225W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +214%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

9.754 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +98%

18801

Radeon RX 5700 XT

9478

Blender

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +93%

5697

Radeon RX 5700 XT

2950

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +125%

88

Radeon RX 5700 XT

39

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +104%

151

Radeon RX 5700 XT

74

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +72%

191

Radeon RX 5700 XT

111

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +134%

61

Radeon RX 5700 XT

26

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +105%

72

Radeon RX 5700 XT

35

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +85%

106

Radeon RX 5700 XT

57

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +84%

109

Radeon RX 5700 XT

59

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +62%

184

Radeon RX 5700 XT

113

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +39%

198

Radeon RX 5700 XT

142

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +44%

94

Radeon RX 5700 XT

65

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +77%

142

Radeon RX 5700 XT

80

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

172

Radeon RX 5700 XT +8%

186

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

8960

Shading Units

2560

280

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 10

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

225W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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