NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

7264 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (302W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +1325%

29.77 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 30

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

18

8704

Shading Units

1440

272

TMUs

72

96

ROPs

32

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hemlock

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

40 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

302W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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