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).

 

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: 1181 vs 1085
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 28851 vs 26655
  • 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 1181 vs 1085
PassMark - G3D Mark 28851 vs 26655
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
1181
1085
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28851
26655
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 1181 1085
PassMark - G3D Mark 28851 26655
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 27044 18842
Geekbench - OpenCL 169570
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