NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1665MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

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

7936 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +378%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +316%

19794

Radeon RX 590

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +283%

92

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +232%

153

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +180%

199

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +192%

114

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +152%

187

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +97%

199

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +138%

100

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +123%

150

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +69%

186

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 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

-

Compute Units

36

80

SM Count

-

10240

Shading Units

2304

320

TMUs

144

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

49.44 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

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 Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

12 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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