NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700M 10 GB, 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

11608 points

156% significantly better overall score

4525 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

194 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

87 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

69 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

120 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

80 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

71 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

40 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

87% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9403 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

306% significantly higher Blender score

1185.54 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

80710 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

63096 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

78550 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

90816 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

1489 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2400 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

Identical

10 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

137% significantly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

135 W

137% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

6% slightly higher pixel rate

153.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

40% slightly higher texture rate

331.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

180% significantly better floating point performance

10.6 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

277% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

88% significantly more texture mapping units

144

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

32nd of 586

112th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 May

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 6700M specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6700M has a slightly 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 6700M 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 10 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6700M has a significantly lower TDP at 135 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 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 over the Radeon RX 6700M.