NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1710MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

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

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +382%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +306%

17724

Radeon RX 580

4359

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +364%

79

Radeon RX 580

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +297%

139

Radeon RX 580

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +262%

181

Radeon RX 580

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +296%

107

Radeon RX 580

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +200%

162

Radeon RX 580

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +143%

190

Radeon RX 580

78

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +135%

141

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 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

42.88 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

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 8-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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