Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2013 | Jan 2022 |
| Generation | Sea Islands | GeForce 30 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1188 MHz |
| Base Clock | 1260 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1710 MHz | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 12GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 264.0GB/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 | 29.60 GPixel/s | 164.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 118.4 GTexel/s | 478.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.789 TFLOPS | 30.64 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 947.2 GFLOPS | 478.8 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 30.64 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GA102 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) | 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 | 250W | 350W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 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 | |