NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 679.99

$ 70.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

19220 points

65% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

393 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

273 FPS

133 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

362 FPS

162 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

158 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

213% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5616 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

3540.90 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

187759 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

213258 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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

2400 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

20 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

384 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

800 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

315 W

1% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

460 Gigapixels/s

180% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

810 Gigatexels/s

74% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

54.07 TFLOPS

81% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

12288

41% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

768

182% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

10th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2022 December

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 7900 XT benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 7900 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 7900 XT has significantly more memory with 20 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 7900 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 315 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 Radeon RX 7900 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 3080.