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

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1260 MHz
  • Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 2245 MHz vs 1710 MHz
  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 718.4 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 35% lower typical power consumption: 260 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 89% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1107 vs 1086
  • Around 19% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 22386 vs 18842
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 Jul 2023 vs 11 Jan 2022
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1260 MHz
Boost clock speed 2245 MHz vs 1710 MHz
Texture fill rate 718.4 GTexel/s vs 478.8 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 260 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1107 vs 1086
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 22386 vs 18842

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

  • Around 75% higher pipelines: 8960 vs 5120
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 8960 vs 5120
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 26686 vs 26684

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1107
1086
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
26684
26686
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
22386
18842
Name AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
PassMark - G2D Mark 1107 1086
PassMark - G3D Mark 26684 26686
Geekbench - OpenCL 165892
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 22386 18842

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
Code name Navi 31 GA102
Launch date 27 Jul 2023 11 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 18 16

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2245 MHz 1710 MHz
Compute units 80
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 1260 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 5120 8960
Pixel fill rate 431.0 GPixel/s 164.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 718.4 GTexel/s 478.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 260 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 57700 million 28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 30.64 TFLOPS

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) 600 Watt 750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 12-pin
Width 110 mm, 4.3 inches 112 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 576.0 GB/s 912.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1188 MHz, 19 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X