NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 749.99
$ 662.99
$ 87.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
15475 points
33% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
326 FPS
45 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
216 FPS
75 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
295 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
127 FPS
16 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points
324% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4154 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
98% significantly higher Blender score
2429.25 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
142590 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
0.50% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
157875 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz
1800 MHz
25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
2430 MHz
42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB
16 GiB
60% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit
25% slightly larger memory bus width
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s
21% slightly higher memory bandwidth
624 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W
263 W
21% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
233 Gigapixels/s
41% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s
583 Gigatexels/s
25% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS
36.04 TFLOPS
21% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704
6% slightly more shading units
8192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272
13% slightly more texture mapping units
240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
Identical
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586
17th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
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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 7800 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7800 XT beats the GeForce RTX 3080 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7800 XT 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 Radeon RX 7800 XT 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 10 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 7800 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 263 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 Radeon RX 7800 XT over the GeForce RTX 3080.

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