NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1710MHz vs 1420MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +368%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +324%

18801

Radeon RX 590 GME

4429

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

8960

Shading Units

2304

280

TMUs

144

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

45.44 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

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

Board Design

350W

TDP

175W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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