Radeon RX 480 and GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
27475
Radeon RX 480
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
Ampere GA102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2016
January 2022
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 12-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1260 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
8960
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
478.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
912.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
2.0
+
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
+
1.3
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-