AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 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
1% slightly better overall score
13880 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

286 FPS
317 FPS
31 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS
35 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
173 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
239 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS
136 FPS
13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points
6555.01 points
164% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points
179169 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
164101 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz
87% significantly higher core clock speed
975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz
49% significantly higher boost clock speed
1500 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
896 GB/s
75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
80 W
274% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s
100% significantly higher pixel rate
144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s
100% significantly higher texture rate
360 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
7680
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320
33% slightly more texture mapping units
240

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
26th 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
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

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 5080 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6900 XT in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop over the Radeon RX 6900 XT.

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