NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 195.01 slightly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points

89% significantly better overall score

6138 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS

174 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

100 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

106 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

9129 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

489% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

77122 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

92086 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91729 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

2% 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

4096 Bit

1180% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

1024 GB/s

34% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

300 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

115.26 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

432.24 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

29.77 TFLOPS

115% significantly better floating point performance

13.8 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

126% significantly more shading units

3840

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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

HBM2

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3080 vs Radeon VII comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU is faster than the Radeon VII in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3080 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. Despite this, the Radeon VII has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 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 VII has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the Radeon VII.