AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

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AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 150% (2505MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (320W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 +1089%

48.74 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

GeForce RTX 4080

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Sep 2022

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

2205 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2505 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

716.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

9728

128

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

280.6 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

761.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

48.74 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.74 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

761.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

AD103

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GPU Variant

AD103-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

365 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

320W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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