NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2020
Jun 2012
Generation
GeForce 30
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1440 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
10GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
320bit
384bit
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
68
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Shading Units
8704
2048
TMUs
272
128
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
272
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RT Cores
68
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
5 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
320W
300W
Suggested PSU
700 W
700 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
—
Shader Model
6.6
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
17,662
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
8,879
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.