AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1860MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

8448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +585%

40 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4162

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +430%

22082

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +1627%

6459

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +517%

105

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +377%

167

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +320%

210

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +419%

187

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti +113%

226

Radeon RX 480

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GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2022

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1560 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1860 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1008GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

10752

144

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

208.3 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

625.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

40.00 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

625.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GA102-350-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

Board Design

150W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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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