AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages
Lower TDP (295W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1710MHz vs 1546MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 483.8GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 64
12.66 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+142%
30.64 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX Vega 64
7373
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+152%
18647
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX Vega 64
3619
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+160%
9411
Blender
Radeon RX Vega 64
660
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+739%
5543
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 64
31
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+183%
88
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 64
62
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+143%
151
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX Vega 64
92
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+107%
191
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 64
57
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+91%
109
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 64
95
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+93%
184
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX Vega 64
129
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+53%
198
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 64
56
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+67%
94
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 64
107
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+32%
142
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Jan 2022
Vega
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1247 MHz
Base Clock
1260 MHz
1546 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
945 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6X
2048bit
Memory Bus
384bit
483.8GB/s
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
4096
Shading Units
8960
256
TMUs
280
64
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
280
-
RT Cores
70
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
98.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
395.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
25.33 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
12.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
791.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
295W
TDP
350W
600 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GA102
Vega 10 XT
(215-0894200)
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Ampere
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
