NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

8384 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +7652%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Dec 2007

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

8704

Shading Units

320

272

TMUs

16

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

5 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

R600

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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