AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon VII NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1750MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 912.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (295W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII

13.44 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +127%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII

9307

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +102%

18801

Blender

Radeon VII

772

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +637%

5697

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon VII

44

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +100%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon VII

82

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +84%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon VII

114

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +67%

191

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon VII

65

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +67%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon VII

114

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +61%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon VII

153

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +29%

198

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon VII

66

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +42%

94

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon VII

62

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +129%

142

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon VII

136

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +26%

172

Radeon VII

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vega II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6X

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

8960

240

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

GA102

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 5.1

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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