AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1710MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +410%

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4164

GeForce RTX 3080 +326%

17753

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce RTX 3080 +364%

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce RTX 3080 +297%

139

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce RTX 3080 +262%

181

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce RTX 3080 +291%

141

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3080 +62%

172

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2020

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

2304

Shading Units

8704

144

TMUs

272

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

68

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

320W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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