AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB Full Specs

Summary

4,096 Shaders 2.97GHz	8,960 Shaders 1.71GHz
16GB GDDR6640GB/s	12GB GDDR6X912.4GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 48.66 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 30.64 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 304W	TDP 350W
Power Connectors - 2x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin -

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

Radeon RX 9070 XT1.56 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x1.59

GeForce RTX 3080 12GB980.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x1

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed2970MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed1710MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 1.56 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 980.6 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
Tensor FP8-16 194.6 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 389.3 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 194.6 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 389.3 TFLOPS	-
Tensor FP16-16 97.32 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 194.6 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 97.32 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 194.6 TFLOPS	Tensor FP16-16 122.6 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 245.1 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 61.29 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 122.6 TFLOPS
BF16 97.32 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 97.32 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 194.6 TFLOPS	BF16 30.64 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 61.29 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 122.6 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 48.66 TFLOPS	FP32 30.64 TFLOPS
FP64 1.52 TFLOPS	FP64 478.8 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 778.6 TOPS	Tensor INT4 490.3 TOPS
Tensor INT8 389.3 TOPS	Tensor INT8 245.1 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 46.22 TOPS
Pixel Rate 380.2 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 191.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 760.3 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 478.8 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 4,096 Shaders	Shaders 8,960 Shaders
TMUs 256 TMUs	TMUs 280 TMUs
ROPs 128 ROPs	ROPs 112 ROPs
Tensor Cores 128 T-Cores	Tensor Cores 280 T-Cores
RT Cores 64 RT-Cores	RT Cores 70 RT-Cores
CUs 64 CUs	SMs 70 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 2.4GHz	Base Clock 1.26GHz
Boost Clock 2.97GHz	Boost Clock 1.71GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 8.2MB shared	L2 Cache 5.1MB shared
L3 Cache 64MB shared	L3 Cache -
L3 Bandwidth 2.25TB/s	L3 Bandwidth -

Memory

16GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6X
Memory Bus 256-bit	Memory Bus 384-bit
Memory Speed 20GT/s	Memory Speed 19GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 640GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 912.4GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP 304W	TDP 350W
Max Temp -	Max Temp 93°C Max

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 3	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

3x DisplayPort 2.1	-
-	3x DisplayPort 1.4
1x HDMI 2.1	1x HDMI 2.1

Encoder

Encoder Model VCN 4.0

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Decoder

Decoder Model VCN 4.0

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2.5-Slots	PCIe 2-Slots
Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 50 mm (1.97")	Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 285 mm (11.22") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Open-Air 3x Fans	Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans
Power Connectors 2x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin

Chip

Manufacturer AMD	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture RDNA 4	Architecture Ampere
Family Radeon RX 9000	Family GeForce 30
Branding	Branding
Codename -	Codename NV172
Chip Variant Navi 48 XL	Chip Variant GA102-200-KD-A1
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Jan 6, 2025	Release Date Jan 27, 2022

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry Samsung
Fabrication Node N4P	Fabrication Node 8N
Die Size 357mm²	Die Size 628mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 Billion	Transistor Count 28.3 Billion
Transistor Density 151.2 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 45.04 MTr/mm²

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