AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Navi 21
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
GA102
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB with 5120 shaders against the 3 months older GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB that utilizes 68 pipelines and 8704 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6900 XT
- Shows 12% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 121 vs 108 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- Includes 6 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3080
- 30% higher maximum theoretical performance (29.8 vs 23 TFLOPS)
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 48% higher memory bandwidth: 760.3 vs 512 GB/s
- Achieves 30% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (161K vs 124K)
- Has 70% more shading units (8704 vs 5120)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 212 139 117 90 |
170 114 104 80 |
| The Witcher 3 | 209 186 138 71 |
189 165 116 63 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 296 213 153 81 |
274 206 149 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 173 147 131 83 |
145 138 114 72 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 129 107 80 46 |
119 98 78 43 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 186 178 128 85 |
152 145 110 73 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 129 112 92 55 |
109 89 74 44 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 142 127 86 42 |
135 117 79 36 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 228 213 161 80 |
210 195 151 82 |
| 1080p High | 189 | 167 |
| 1080p Ultra | 158 | 141 |
| 1440p Ultra | 121 | 108 |
| 4K Ultra | 70 | 64 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 20817 | 17664 |
| Solar Bay | 86965 | 85898 |
| Port Royal | 10543 | 11597 |
| Fire Strike | 57312 | 42472 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 39345 | 37900 |
| Night Raid | 159536 | 133004 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 231.6 img/sec | 217.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 152.5 img/sec | 141.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 4.26 Gpixels/sec | 8.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.75 Gpixels/sec | 11 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 8.43 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.12 Gpixels/sec | 1.29 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 618.7 Gpixels/sec | 780.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 17973.9 FPS | 22538.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1063 | 1062 |
| DirectX 11 | 279 FPS | 207 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 111 FPS | 99 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14295 Ops/s | 14058 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6900 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-04 -> phillybass | Cinebench 2024 | 8430 |
GeForce RTX 3080
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-06 (Henry) | Cinebench 2024 | 50695 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 13868 | 9439 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 17467 | 25471 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32396 | 19892 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 47808 | 46956 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 178873 | 104704 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4358 | 2712 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7910 | 4828 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 15394 | 12153 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 57351 | 36822 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 372610 | 246005 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6900 XT and GeForce RTX 3080General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | December 8, 2020 | September 1, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $699 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 21 | GA102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4070 | - Radeon RX 6800 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 7900 XT | - GeForce RTX 5080 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 29th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1825 MHz | 1440 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2250 MHz | 1710 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 8704 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 320 | 272 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 68 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 272 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 80 | 68 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 5MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 288 GPixel/s | 164 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 720 GTexel/s | 465 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 300 W | 320 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 520 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 26 billion | 28 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50 MTr/mm² | 44.59 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 10 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1188 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 19000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 320-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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