AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (350W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +434%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

8960

176

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

GA102

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

350W

900 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 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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