MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
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EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.52 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.89 TFLOPS.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING has 8960 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.76 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 31.45 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 70 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC 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 MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.800 GHz clocks.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING has a 12 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.188GHz.

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 MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.520 GHz. The turbo frequency of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is 1.755 GHz.

1.181 GHz Base Clock 1.260 GHz
1.520 GHz Boost Clock 1.755 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC 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 100 °C.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

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 graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is cooled by a Water cooling.

Radial Fan-Type --
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Water cooling
37 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
49 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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 MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

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

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

270 mm Length 263 mm
110 mm Height 132 mm
40 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1068 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC was released in Q3/2017.

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB XC3 ULTRA HYDRO COPPER GAMING published in Q1/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

-- 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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