NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1710MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Lower TDP (210W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +182%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080 +157%

17711

Radeon RX Vega 56

6876

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +163%

79

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +143%

139

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +108%

181

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +105%

107

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +74%

162

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +52%

190

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080 +102%

93

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080 +54%

141

Radeon RX Vega 56

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080 +56%

172

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce RTX 3080

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Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2

320bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

68

SM Count

-

Compute Units

56

8704

Shading Units

3584

272

TMUs

224

96

ROPs

64

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 5.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

320W

TDP

210W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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