NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Price

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$ 1016.49

$ 439.99

$ 576.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

109 %

51% significantly better overall score

72 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

266 FPS

121 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

145 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

137 FPS

29 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

109 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

191 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

129 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

107 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

62 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17552

35% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

12922

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5024.69

284% significantly higher Blender score

1307.34

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

102988

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

70085

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

179840

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

96573

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

151693

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

115164

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

2321 MHz

61% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2581 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

12 GiB

20% slightly more memory

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

97% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

230 W

39% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

0.61% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

413 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

125% significantly better floating point performance

13.21 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

239% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

69% significantly more texture mapping units

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

13th of 549

23rd of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

September 2020

March 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6700 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 230 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3080 is faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT.