AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +2322%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Sep 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

768

Shading Units

8704

48

TMUs

272

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

1229 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

307.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

320W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA102

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-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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