NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD FireStream 9250

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD FireStream 9250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 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 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

8160 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +2964%

30.64 TFLOPS

FireStream 9250

1 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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FireStream 9250

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

993 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

8960

Shading Units

800

280

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

RV770

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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