NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 6800 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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 RTX 3000 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 6800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 20% higher pipelines: 4608 vs 3840
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 115 Watt vs 250 Watt

Launch date	21 Mar 2023 vs 28 Oct 2020
Pipelines	4608 vs 3840
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 2105 MHz vs 1695 MHz
2.1x more texture fill rate: 505.2 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 26% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 126207 vs 100064
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 972 vs 607
Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 22316 vs 15799

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	2105 MHz vs 1695 MHz
Texture fill rate	505.2 GTexel/s vs 244.1 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	126207 vs 100064
PassMark - G2D Mark	972 vs 607
PassMark - G3D Mark	22316 vs 15799

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6800

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

100064

126207

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

607

972

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

15799

22316

Name	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6800
Geekbench - OpenCL	100064	126207
PassMark - G2D Mark	607	972
PassMark - G3D Mark	15799	22316
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		432.118
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		41.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		383.037
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2280.457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16162
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3373
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16162
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3373
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		16306

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6800
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD106	Navi 21
Launch date	21 Mar 2023	28 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating	86	75
Launch price (MSRP)		$579
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	2105 MHz
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	4608	3840
Pixel fill rate	81.36 GPixel/s	202.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	244.1 GTexel/s	505.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	115 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	22900 million	26800 million
Compute units		60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1010 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		32.33 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		16.17 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Height		40 mm (1.6 inches)
Length		267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		600 Watt
Width		120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	256.0 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6