NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1695MHz vs 1600MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)

6400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +171%

35.58 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

13.11 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3090 +180%

19888

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

7078

GeForce RTX 3090

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Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 30

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

10496

Shading Units

4096

328

TMUs

256

112

ROPs

64

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Vega 10

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

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

350W

TDP

300W

750 W

Suggested PSU

700 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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