AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2250MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (300W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

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

5632 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +64%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT

19441

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1%

19794

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

72

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +27%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

134

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +14%

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

188

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +5%

199

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

60

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +10%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

69

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +11%

77

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

102

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +9%

112

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

104

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +9%

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

179

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +4%

187

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

199

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

199

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +11%

111

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

100

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

138

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +8%

150

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

178

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +4%

186

Radeon RX 6800 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

May 2021

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 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

72

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

4608

Shading Units

10240

288

TMUs

320

128

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

72

RT Cores

80

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

350W

700 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 XT (215-121000177)

GPU Variant

GA102-225-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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