AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1665MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +378%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 590

4757

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +316%

19794

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 590

24

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +283%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 590

46

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +232%

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 590

71

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +180%

199

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

39

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +192%

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

74

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +152%

187

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

101

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +97%

199

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 590

42

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +138%

100

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 590

67

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +123%

150

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +69%

186

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

May 2021

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

2304

Shading Units

10240

144

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

12 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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