AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800M 12 GB with 40 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 5 months older GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 16 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3080 Mobile over RX 6800M
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
  • Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 78% higher maximum theoretical performance (21 vs 11.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 77 vs 68 FPS
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 336 GB/s
  • Achieves 30% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (128K vs 99K)
  • Has 2.4x more shading units (6144 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
142
86
67
44
132
87
77
53
The Witcher 3
129
108
76
40
151
126
90
48
Counter-Strike 2
212
143
104
54
221
172
120
66
Far Cry 6
116
98
76
44
115
107
85
47
Hogwarts Legacy
77
64
48
23
85
72
55
30
CoD: Modern Warfare III
106
100
66
45
104
97
70
46
Ghost of Tsushima
86
70
49
28
82
67
51
29
Cyberpunk 2077
83
74
44
21
91
80
51
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
139
124
85
45
144
131
96
49
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 121 125
1080p Ultra 96 104
1440p Ultra 68 77
4K Ultra 38 43
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
10149
11539
Time Spy 11509 11989
Solar Bay 44251 50311
Port Royal 5558 7199
Fire Strike 33457 29057
Wild Life Extreme 18898 24744
Night Raid 77742 81862
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
99418
128827
Background Blur 222.9 img/sec 211 img/sec
Face Detection 135.3 img/sec 123.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.46 Gpixels/sec 5.78 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.14 Gpixels/sec 8.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.64 Gpixels/sec 6.25 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.92 Gpixels/sec 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 432.6 Gpixels/sec 543.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13677.6 FPS 17774.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
6657
11720

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
13301
16065
G2D Mark 529 625
DirectX 11 128 FPS 145 FPS
DirectX 12 65 FPS 71 FPS
GPU Compute 5055 Ops/s 7049 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 694 & 3515 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1395.07
3245.42
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 96 & 897 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
17087
18354
GB6 ML Half Precision
18189
29767
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6800M +15%
13247
Image Classification (SP) 7861 6773
Image Segmentation (HP) 7803 19587
Image Super Resolution (Q) 21982 15553
Face Detection (HP) 23070 35885
Pose Estimation (Q) 93148 82446
Text Classification (SP) 2165 2830
Machine Translation (HP) 3022 4019
Object Detection (SP) 8375 8380
Depth Estimation (Q) 31430 28597
Style Transfer (SP) 178071 184715
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800M and GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 1, 2021 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 22 GA104 (GN20-E7)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop - Radeon RX 6800M
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX or above - Intel Core i9 12900H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (56th and 34th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2116 MHz 780-1350 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2300 MHz 1245-1710 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 48
Tensor Cores - 192
Ray-tracing Cores 40 48
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 147 GPixel/s 120-164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 368 GTexel/s 239-328 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
11.8 TFLOPS
15.3-21 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 145 W 80-165 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 7 nm 8 nm
Die Size 335 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 17.2 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 51.34 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 8-16 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1500-1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
336 GB/s
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4a

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