AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 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 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2310MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (335W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +44%

34.1 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8%

21457

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

19794

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

86

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +6%

92

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1%

156

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

153

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +7%

214

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

199

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

65

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1%

66

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

76

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1%

77

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +2%

115

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

112

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +7%

122

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

114

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +6%

200

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

187

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT

200

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

199

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +30%

130

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

100

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1%

152

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

150

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1%

189

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

186

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

May 2021

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1365 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

5120

Shading Units

10240

320

TMUs

320

128

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

80

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

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

350W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 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

GA102-225-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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