NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

7808 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +1410%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 30

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

896

272

TMUs

56

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

85W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Bonaire

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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