NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14177 points

2290% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

342 FPS

330 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

168 FPS

158 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

245 FPS

233 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

135 FPS

130 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19628 points

1276% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5580.42 points

6195% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

209081 points

2285% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

131975 points

1373% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

191836 points

1963% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

173043 points

1418% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1370 MHz

356% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2000 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

45 W

677% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

186.5 Gigapixels/s

1065% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

532.8 Gigatexels/s

732% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.1 TFLOPS

1565% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10240

1900% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

900% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

1300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

22nd of 586

309th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs Radeon Vega 8 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the Radeon Vega 8.