AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 3080
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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Navi 31
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
GA102
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB with 6144 shaders against the 2 years and 2 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 7900 XTX
- Performs significantly better (up to 57%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.1x higher maximum theoretical performance (61.4 vs 29.8 TFLOPS)
- Shows 47% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 159 vs 108 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Includes 14 GB more video memory
- Achieves 39% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (224K vs 161K)
- Has 26% higher memory bandwidth: 960 vs 760.3 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3080
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 42% more shading units (8704 vs 6144)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 253 175 156 122 |
170 114 104 80 |
| The Witcher 3 | 280 251 177 96 |
189 165 116 63 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 333 227 166 85 |
274 206 149 82 |
| Far Cry 6 | 212 181 170 109 |
145 138 114 72 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 167 143 113 64 |
119 98 78 43 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 264 251 192 128 |
152 145 110 73 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 168 140 122 77 |
109 89 74 44 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 203 181 126 59 |
135 117 79 36 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 302 274 208 112 |
210 195 151 82 |
| 1080p High | 242 | 167 |
| 1080p Ultra | 203 | 141 |
| 1440p Ultra | 159 | 108 |
| 4K Ultra | 95 | 64 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 30804 | 17664 |
| Solar Bay | 123985 | 85898 |
| Port Royal | 16759 | 11597 |
| Fire Strike | 73279 | 42472 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 58739 | 37900 |
| Night Raid | 183191 | 133004 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 423.9 img/sec | 217.3 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 270.8 img/sec | 141.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 9.23 Gpixels/sec | 8.19 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 13.7 Gpixels/sec | 11 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 11.1 Gpixels/sec | 8.43 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.74 Gpixels/sec | 1.29 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 871 Gpixels/sec | 780.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29891.2 FPS | 22538.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1290 | 1062 |
| DirectX 11 | 355 FPS | 207 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 134 FPS | 99 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 17777 Ops/s | 14058 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
No benchmark results yet
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) | 18608 | 9439 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25385 | 25471 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 45641 | 19892 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 71321 | 46956 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 257258 | 104704 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 5240 | 2712 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7425 | 4828 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 21335 | 12153 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 66140 | 36822 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 483867 | 246005 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900 XTX and GeForce RTX 3080General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | November 3, 2022 | September 1, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $999 | $699 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 31 | GA102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4080 | - Radeon RX 6800 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5080 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700K or above | - Intel Core i7 12700K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (6th and 31st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1929 MHz | 1440 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2498 MHz | 1710 MHz |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 8704 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 384 | 272 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 96 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 68 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 272 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 96 | 68 |
| L1 Cache | 256KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 6MB shared | 5MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 480 GPixel/s | 164 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 959 GTexel/s | 465 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 355 W | 320 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 57 billion | 28 billion |
| Transistor Density | 107.75 MTr/mm² | 44.59 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 24 GB | 10 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2500 MHz | 1188 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20000 Mbps | 19000 Mbps |
| Bus | 384-bit | 320-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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