AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1710MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1073%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1788

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +951%

18801

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +2833%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1158%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +809%

191

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560

11

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +890%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560

32

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +475%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

40

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +395%

198

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +82%

172

Radeon RX 560

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

8960

64

TMUs

280

16

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

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

350W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-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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