GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs Radeon Vega 3 Embedded

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated25
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data40.88
Power efficiencyno data14.25
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePicasso-MGA102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2019 (5 years ago)11 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$799

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 cores1928960
Core clock speed300 MHz1260 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt350 Watt
Texture fill rate14.40478.8
Floating-point processing power0.4608 TFLOPS30.64 TFLOPS
ROPs496
TMUs12280
Tensor Coresno data280
Ray Tracing Coresno data70

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data285 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1188 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data912.4 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 ConnectorsMotherboard Dependent1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 12 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 350 Watt

Vega 3 Embedded has 3400% lower power consumption.

RTX 3080 12 GB, on the other hand, has a 50% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 3 Embedded and GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon Vega 3 Embedded
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