AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 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

593 points

16207 points

2633% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

382 FPS

370 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

188 FPS

177 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

275 FPS

264 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

151 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

21929 points

1437% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

6069.41 points

6747% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

229738 points

2521% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

141134 points

1475% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

207329 points

2130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

187369 points

1544% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1560 MHz

420% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

900% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

208.3 Gigapixels/s

1201% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

625 Gigatexels/s

876% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

40 TFLOPS

1853% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

10752

2000% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

336

950% 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

309th of 586

16th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2022 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

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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. 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 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 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 3090 Ti over the Radeon Vega 8.