NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1665MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

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

7936 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +484%

34.1 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +374%

19760

Radeon RX 480

4163

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +441%

92

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +337%

153

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +298%

199

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +316%

150

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +75%

186

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 30

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1365 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

80

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

10240

Shading Units

2304

320

TMUs

144

112

ROPs

32

320

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

186.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

532.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

34.10 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

34.10 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

532.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GA102-225-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 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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