AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (2105MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +89%

30.64 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800

16233

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +16%

18851

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800

65

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +35%

88

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800

117

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +29%

151

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800

168

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +13%

191

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6800

51

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +19%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6800

60

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +20%

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6800

87

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +21%

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800

91

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +19%

109

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800

178

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +3%

184

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800

194

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +2%

198

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +4%

98

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

94

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800

126

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +12%

142

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800

170

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +1%

172

Radeon RX 6800

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

3840

Shading Units

8960

240

TMUs

280

96

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

60

RT Cores

70

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

GA102

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

7 nm

Process Size

8 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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