NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1695MHz vs 1330MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

8192 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +480%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1330 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

10496

Shading Units

2304

328

TMUs

144

112

ROPs

32

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

185W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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