AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1710MHz vs 1340MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +396%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580

4359

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +330%

18777

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580

17

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +417%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580

35

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +331%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580

50

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +282%

191

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580

27

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +303%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

54

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +240%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580

78

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +153%

198

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580

60

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +136%

142

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2022

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

8960

144

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GA102

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

350W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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