AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (2815MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +431%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +283%

18851

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

571

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +870%

5543

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +486%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +387%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +306%

191

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +335%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +278%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +241%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +303%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +253%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +186%

198

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +213%

94

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +230%

142

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +79%

172

Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1024

Shading Units

8960

64

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

16

RT Cores

70

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

5 MB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W

TDP

350W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

GA102

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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