NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1665MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1168%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1018%

19794

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

80

SM Count

-

10240

Shading Units

1280

320

TMUs

80

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

180W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Curacao

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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