GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G
vs
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G and the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 and has 3584 texture shaders and 56 execution units.

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB, which has 8960 shaders and 70 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G GPU EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip GA102
GCN 5 Architecture Ampere
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 70
3584 Shader 8960
64 Render Output Units 112
256 Texture Units 280
0 Raytracing Cores 70

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM2 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING can access 12 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 912 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 12 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR6X
0.800 GHz Memory Clock 1.188 GHz
1.6 Gbps Memory Speed 19.0 Gbps
410 GB/s Memory bandwidth 912 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.156 GHz. The base frequency of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is 1.260 GHz.

1.156 GHz Base Clock 1.260 GHz
1.471 GHz Boost Clock 1.755 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is 210 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING has a TDP of 350 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

210 W TDP 350 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING has 0 -- fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type --
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Water cooling
37 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
49 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G is 280 mm long, 127 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is 263 mm long, 132 mm high and -- wide.

280 mm Length 263 mm
127 mm Height 132 mm
40 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1090 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 56 8G was released in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING was introduced in Q1/2022 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no 12G-P5-4869-KL
Q3/2017 Release date Q1/2022
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
14 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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

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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