NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 24GB VRAM Radeon RX 7950 XTX 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

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (350W vs 355W)

AMD Radeon RX 7950 XTX 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 93% (3300MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX +164%

81.1 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 7950 XTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

2200 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

3300 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

960.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

96

8960

Shading Units

6144

280

TMUs

384

96

ROPs

192

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

96

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

5 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

633.6 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1267 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

162.2 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

81.10 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 31

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XTX+

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

355W

750 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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