NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 41% higher boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 1200 MHz
20.5x more pipelines: 10496 vs 512
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 14 nm
3.6x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5118 vs 1429

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Sep 2020 vs 26 Oct 2017
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines	10496 vs 512
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 14 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5118 vs 1429

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

5118

1429

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
PassMark - G3D Mark	26668
PassMark - G2D Mark	1060
Geekbench - OpenCL	191142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	690.619
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	7585.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	62.614
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	209.424
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2441.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5118	1429

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Vega
Code name	GA102	Vega Raven Ridge
Launch date	1 Sep 2020	26 Oct 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$1499
Place in performance rating	46	949
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	35.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	10496	512
Pixel fill rate	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	556.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt
Transistor count	28300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	138 mm (5.4 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	313 mm (12.3 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin
Width	Triple-slot
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.1
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	936.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6X