NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 749.99
$ 199.98
$ 550.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
225% significantly better overall score
3570 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
204 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
77 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
85 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
56 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
131 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
69 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
78 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points
1092% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1479 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
691% significantly higher Blender score
609.00 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points
273% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
48650 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points
236% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
37453 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
62239 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz
27% slightly higher core clock speed
1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
9% slightly higher boost clock speed
1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB
66% significantly more memory
6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit
66% significantly larger memory bus width
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s
163% significantly higher memory bandwidth
288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W
150 W
113% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
64% significantly higher pixel rate
99.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s
132% significantly higher texture rate
199.68 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS
365% significantly better floating point performance
6.39 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704
325% significantly more shading units
2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272
112% significantly more texture mapping units
128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
49% significantly more render output processors
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586
135th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2020 January

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 vs Radeon RX 5600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the Radeon RX 5600 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3080 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 GeForce RTX 3080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the Radeon RX 5600.

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