NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 470

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1665MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +590%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +436%

19771

Radeon RX 470

3685

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +666%

92

Radeon RX 470

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +512%

153

Radeon RX 470

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +397%

199

Radeon RX 470

40

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +341%

150

Radeon RX 470

34

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +89%

186

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

10240

Shading Units

2048

320

TMUs

128

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

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

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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