GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs Radeon RX 9070 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 644.6GB/s)
4864 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 9070 XT Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 74% (2970MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Lower TDP (304W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
30640
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+58%
48660
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
18647
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+63%
30445
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
9411
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+55%
14633
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
5089
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+25%
6403
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1260 MHz
Base Clock
1660 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2970 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
912.4GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
70
SM Count
-
8960
Shading Units
4096
280
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
128
280
Tensor Cores
128
70
RT Cores
64
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
6 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
164.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
380.2 GPixel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
760.3 GTexel/s
30.64 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
97.32 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.66 TFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.521 TFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
304W
750 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
Navi 48
GA102-220-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
(215-176600315)
Ampere
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.8