GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated26
Place by popularitynot in top-10093
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data46.20
Power efficiencyno data14.21
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnGA102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)1 September 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10248704
Core clock speed900 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate59.20465.1
Floating-point processing power1.894 TFLOPS29.77 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs64272
Tensor Coresno data272
Ray Tracing Coresno data68

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data285 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount2 GB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s760.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 1 September 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 320 Watt

R9 270 1024SP has 113.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3080, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 400% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 270 1024SP and GeForce RTX 3080. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
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