AMD Radeon Vega 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB, 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

111 points

24107 points

21618% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

560 FPS

557 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

277 FPS

274 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

407 FPS

404 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

226 FPS

225 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

414 points

8762 points

2016% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

42.23 points

9133.30 points

21526% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3968 points

267906 points

6651% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5804 points

257198 points

4331% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

2295 MHz

665% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1100 MHz

2617 MHz

137% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

2299% significantly lower TDP

360 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

4.4 Gigapixels/s

293.1 Gigapixels/s

6561% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

13.2 Gigatexels/s

879.3 Gigatexels/s

6561% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

10752

5499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

2700% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

2700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

498th of 586

4th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 3 vs GeForce RTX 5080 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 beats the Radeon Vega 3 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 5080 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 GeForce RTX 5080 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 Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5080 at 360 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5080 over the Radeon Vega 3.