AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1710MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +824%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1792

Shading Units

8960

112

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

350W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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