NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 868.99
$ 749.99
$ 119.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points
14445 points
1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

342 FPS
50 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
292 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS
213 FPS
44 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS
260 FPS
15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS
11 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
124 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points
365% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4221 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
2747.99 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
176249 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points
177326 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz
1890 MHz
37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz
2310 MHz
38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
16 GiB
33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

912.4 GB/s
58% significantly higher memory bandwidth
576 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W
335 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s
295.7 Gigapixels/s
58% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s
739.2 Gigatexels/s
38% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS
44% significantly better floating point performance
23.65 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240
100% significantly more shading units
5120

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
Identical
320

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112
128
14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586
20th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon RX 6950 XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti beats the Radeon RX 6950 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6950 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 335 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 6950 XT.

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