GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1710 MHz
TDP
350 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
RTX 3080 12 GB
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
8,960
+337.5%
Shaders
2,048
8,960
+337.5%
TMUs
128
280
+118.8%
ROPs
32
96
+200.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
70
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1260 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1710 MHz
GPU Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1188 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
12,288
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
384 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
70
Tensor Cores
—
280
Power
TDP
250 W
350 W
TDP (W)
250
350
+40.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
750 W
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 12-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA102
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
GeForce 30
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
28,300 million
Die Size
352 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
12.3M / mm²
45.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
285 mm
11.2 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
799 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
GeForce 20
Successor
Sea Islands
GeForce 40