AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Jan 2022
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 30
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1000 MHz
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1188 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
384bit
384bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
912.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
8960
TMUs
128
280
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
SM Count
-
70
Tensor Cores
-
280
RT Cores
-
70

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.64 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
GA102-220-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
628 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
350W
Suggested PSU
700 W
750 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
8.6