AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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

Main Differences

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)

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +25%

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +20%

21457

GeForce RTX 3080

17753

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

86

GeForce RTX 3080

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +12%

156

GeForce RTX 3080

139

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +18%

214

GeForce RTX 3080

181

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +6%

65

GeForce RTX 3080

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

76

GeForce RTX 3080

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

115

GeForce RTX 3080

106

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +14%

122

GeForce RTX 3080

107

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +23%

200

GeForce RTX 3080

162

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

200

GeForce RTX 3080

190

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +41%

130

GeForce RTX 3080

92

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +7%

152

GeForce RTX 3080

141

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +9%

189

GeForce RTX 3080

172

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Sep 2020

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

5120

Shading Units

8704

320

TMUs

272

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

80

RT Cores

68

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

320W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

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 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-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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