NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 480

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1860MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +585%

40 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +431%

22133

Radeon RX 480

4164

Blender

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1557%

6200

Radeon RX 480

374

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +517%

105

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +377%

167

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +320%

210

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +419%

187

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +113%

226

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1560 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1860 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

84

SM Count

-

10752

Shading Units

2304

336

TMUs

144

112

ROPs

32

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

40.00 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

450W

TDP

150W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA102-350-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

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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