AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13926 points

74% significantly better overall score

7964 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

280 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

186 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

206 FPS

110 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

252 FPS

119 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

133 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

121 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

3279.67 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

125425 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

91922 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

113801 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

103840 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

64% significantly higher core clock speed

1110 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

45% significantly higher boost clock speed

1545 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

115 W

160% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

148.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s

142% significantly higher texture rate

296.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

23.04 TFLOPS

21% slightly better floating point performance

18.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

6144

20% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

66% significantly more texture mapping units

192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

26th of 597

55th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6900 XT 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. In addition, the Radeon RX 6900 XT also has a significantly 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.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 6900 XT over the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.