AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1260 MHz
Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 2394 MHz vs 1710 MHz
Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 804.4 GTexel/s vs 478.8 GTexel/s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Around 67% higher maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 12 GB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1179 vs 1086
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28846 vs 26686
Around 44% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 27044 vs 18842

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 Nov 2022 vs 11 Jan 2022
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1260 MHz
Boost clock speed	2394 MHz vs 1710 MHz
Texture fill rate	804.4 GTexel/s vs 478.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size	20 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1179 vs 1086
PassMark - G3D Mark	28846 vs 26686
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	27044 vs 18842

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Around 67% higher pipelines: 8960 vs 5376

Pipelines	8960 vs 5376

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1179

1086

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

28846

26686

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

27044

18842

Name	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark	1179	1086
PassMark - G3D Mark	28846	26686
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	27044	18842
Geekbench - OpenCL	169473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2714.187

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Code name	Navi 31	GA102
Launch date	3 Nov 2022	11 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating	17	16
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2394 MHz	1710 MHz
Compute units	84
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1260 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	3.218 TFLOPS (1:16)	478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	103.0 TFLOPS (2:1)	30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	51.48 TFLOPS	30.64 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5376	8960
Pixel fill rate	459.6 GPixel/s	164.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	804.4 GTexel/s	478.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	57700 million	28300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Dual-slot
Height	51 mm, 2 inches	40 mm, 1.6 inches
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	276 mm, 10.9 inches	285 mm, 11.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Width	135 mm, 5.3 inches	112 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	20 GB	12 GB
Memory bandwidth	800.0 GB/s	912.4 GB/s
Memory bus width	320 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective	1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6X