NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 12 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

68% significantly better overall score

6870 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

144 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

104 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

130 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

670% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2289 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

235% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97794 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

104773 points

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

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

165 W

93% significantly 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

11% slightly higher texture rate

415.68 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

123% significantly better floating point performance

13.3 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

32nd of 586

69th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 January

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 6850M XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 beats the Radeon RX 6850M XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6850M 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 6850M XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6850M XT has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 10 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6850M XT has a significantly lower TDP at 165 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 6850M XT.