NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD Steam Machine GPU

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2022
Jan 2026
Generation
GeForce 30
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
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Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1260 MHz
1720 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
2450 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
2250 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6X
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
912.4GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
70
-
Shading Units
8960
1792
TMUs
280
112
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
280
-
RT Cores
70
28
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB per Array
L2 Cache
6 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
28
L3 Cache
-
32 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
156.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
478.8 GTexel/s
274.4 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
30.64 TFLOPS
35.12 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.64 TFLOPS
17.56 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
478.8 GFLOPS
548.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA102
Navi 33
GPU Variant
GA102-220-A1
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Architecture
Ampere
RDNA 3.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
6 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
13.3 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
204 mm²

Board Design

TDP
350W
110W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
-
Shader Model
6.8
6.8