NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

13991 points

2259% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

320 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

159 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

229 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

1297% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

6466% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

204921 points

2238% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

138859 points

1450% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

1991% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

1477% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

366% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2000 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

45 W

677% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

1086% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

768% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

1637% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

1949% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

924% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

1300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs Radeon Vega 8 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 has a significantly 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 Vega 8 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 is better than the Radeon Vega 8.