GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon RX 5900

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated26
Place by popularitynot in top-10087
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data46.20
Power efficiencyno data14.74
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 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 cores40968704
Core clock speedno data1440 MHz
Boost clock speed1635 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors21,000 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate418.6465.1
Floating-point processing power13.39 TFLOPS29.77 TFLOPS
ROPs9696
TMUs256272
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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data285 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount12 GB10 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-8.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 320 Watt

RX 5900 has a 20% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5900 and GeForce RTX 3080. We've got no test results to judge.


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