NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1710MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

7168 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +608%

30.64 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

8960

Shading Units

1792

280

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

120W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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