AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has 4096 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.05 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.60 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB has 8960 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.71 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 30.64 TFLOPS.

GPU

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is equipped with a graphics chip of the Fiji architecture, which has 64 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 70 execution units.
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
AMD Radeon R9 FURY X Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
Fiji XT C8 GPU Chip GA102
Fiji Architecture Ampere
64 Streaming Multiprocessors 70
4096 Shader 8960
64 Render Output Units 112
256 Texture Units 280
0 Raytracing Cores 70

Memory

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is equipped with a 4 GB large HBM graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.500 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB has a 12 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.188GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 12 GB
HBM Memory Type GDDR6X
0.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.188 GHz
1.0 Gbps Memory Speed 19.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 912 GB/s
4096 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has a turbo clock of 1.050 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is 1.710 GHz.

1.050 GHz Base Clock 1.260 GHz
1.050 GHz Boost Clock 1.710 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

275 W TDP 350 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X are cooled with a AIO water cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial (Radiator) Fan-Type Axial
1 x 120 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 0.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
0 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v1.4a HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.2 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_0.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

4096x2160 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_0 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
No DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
No VP8 Decode
No VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

195 mm Length 285 mm
115 mm Height 112 mm
39 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 28 nanometer process, AMD Radeon R9 Fury X was released in Q2/2015.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB published in Q1/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2015 Release date Q1/2022
649 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
28 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
60 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
70 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
104 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
38 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
76 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
126 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
107 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
185 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
12 GB GDDR6X
200 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
4 GB HBM
58643

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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