NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Price

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$ 1549.99

$ 659.00

$ 890.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

24% slightly better overall score

11265 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

102 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

231 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

167 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

37 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

204 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

97 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

98 FPS

163 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

95 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

89 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

101 FPS

177 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Hitman 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

166 FPS

27 FPS slightly higher Hitman 3 FPS

139 FPS

Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

108 FPS

126 FPS

18 FPS slightly higher Horizon Zero Dawn FPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

113 FPS

137 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Shadow of the Tomb Raider FPS

The Witcher 3 FPS

Ultra settings at 1440p

71 FPS

111 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher The Witcher 3 FPS

Days Gone FPS

Very High settings at 1440p

143 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Days Gone FPS

83 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

19436 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

141% significantly higher Blender score

2414.65 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

157812 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

100571 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

154801 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

157877 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

2015 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2250 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

24 GiB

49% significantly more memory

16 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

82% significantly higher memory bandwidth

512 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

300 W

16% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

71% significantly better floating point performance

20.74 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

127% significantly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

13% slightly more texture mapping units

288

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

128

14% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

33rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2020 November

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 3090 vs Radeon RX 6800 XT comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6800 XT in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 16 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 6800 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 300 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 over the Radeon RX 6800 XT.