AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +625%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2020

Volcanic 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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

320bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

68

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

8704

128

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

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GA102

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

320W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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