Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2022 | Nov 2009 |
| Generation | GeForce 30 | Evergreen |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1260 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1710 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1188 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 12GB | 1024MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 912.4GB/s | 128.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| SM Count | 70 | |
| Shading Units | 8960 | 1600 |
| TMUs | 280 | 80 |
| ROPs | 96 | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 280 | |
| RT Cores | 70 | |
| L1 Cache | 128 KB (per SM) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 6 MB | 512 KB |
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 164.2 GPixel/s | 23.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 478.8 GTexel/s | 58.00 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 30.64 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 30.64 TFLOPS | 2.320 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 478.8 GFLOPS | 464.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GA102 | Hemlock |
| GPU Variant | GA102-220-A1 | Hemlock XT(215-0735075) |
| Architecture | Ampere | TeraScale 2 |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC |
| Process Size | 8 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 28.3 billion | 2.154 billion |
| Die Size | 628 mm² | 334 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 350W | 294W |
| Suggested PSU | 750 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a | 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 12-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 5.0 |