NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (320W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2310MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 10GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +25%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3080

17753

Radeon RX 6950 XT +20%

21457

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080

79

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

86

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080

139

Radeon RX 6950 XT +12%

156

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080

181

Radeon RX 6950 XT +18%

214

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080

61

Radeon RX 6950 XT +6%

65

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080

72

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

76

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080

106

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

115

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080

107

Radeon RX 6950 XT +14%

122

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080

162

Radeon RX 6950 XT +23%

200

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080

190

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

200

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3080

92

Radeon RX 6950 XT +41%

130

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3080

141

Radeon RX 6950 XT +7%

152

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3080

172

Radeon RX 6950 XT +9%

189

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

80

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

5120

272

TMUs

320

96

ROPs

128

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

80

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

5 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

335W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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