AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

6912 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (350W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +708%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2022

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1260 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

8960

128

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GA102

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GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

350W

900 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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