NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 37% (1710MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +501%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

2048

280

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

232 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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