NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1710MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +410%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +325%

17724

Radeon RX 480

4162

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +364%

79

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +297%

139

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +262%

181

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +291%

141

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +62%

172

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3080

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Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

8704

Shading Units

2304

272

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

320W

TDP

150W

700 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 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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