NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 63% (1710MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

7424 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +1007%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +902%

17724

Radeon R9 270X

1768

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 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

1000 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

8704

Shading Units

1280

272

TMUs

80

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Curacao

GA102-200-KD-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

Board Design

320W

TDP

180W

700 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 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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