NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1710MHz vs 1600MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (320W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 10GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +127%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jul 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2

320bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

4096

272

TMUs

256

96

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

375W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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