AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X OEM 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 R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1710MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

7680 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265X OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1193%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

70

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

8960

80

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA102

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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