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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points
78% significantly better overall score
7890 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
101 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
185 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
113 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
124 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
132 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
3279.67 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
125425 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
91922 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
113801 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

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
96

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586
59th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series
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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
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop.

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