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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080

Radeon RX 9060 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
GA102

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 4 years and 10 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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
10 GB GDDR6X
96.6
(Very good)
Value Index
49.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3080 over RX 9060 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 6 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3080
  • Performs better (up to 37%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 14% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 108 vs 95 FPS
  • 16% higher maximum theoretical performance (29.8 vs 25.6 TFLOPS)
  • Features 208 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 2.4x higher memory bandwidth: 760.3 vs 320 GB/s
  • Has 4.3x more shading units (8704 vs 2048)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Achieves 50% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (161K vs 107K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9060 XT
vs
RTX 3080

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
178
110
93
67
170
114
104
80
The Witcher 3
171
150
108
56
189
165
116
63
Counter-Strike 2
264
187
131
72
274
206
149
82
Far Cry 6
144
126
105
64
145
138
114
72
Hogwarts Legacy
104
86
66
36
119
98
78
43
CoD: Modern Warfare III
142
135
95
61
152
145
110
73
Ghost of Tsushima
108
88
71
41
109
89
74
44
Cyberpunk 2077
109
98
64
28
135
117
79
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
177
164
120
60
210
195
151
82
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 155 167
1080p Ultra 127 141
1440p Ultra 95 108
4K Ultra 54 64
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
RX 9060 XT
13931
RTX 3080 +37%
19042
Time Spy 16392 17664
Solar Bay 65550 85898
Port Royal 9774 11597
Fire Strike 38943 42472
Wild Life Extreme 27792 37900
Night Raid 147692 133004
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9060 XT
107640
RTX 3080 +50%
161903
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 217.3 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 141.9 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 8.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 11 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 8.43 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.29 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 780.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 22538.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 9060 XT
n/a
RTX 3080
12982

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9060 XT
20115
RTX 3080 +24%
24987
G2D Mark 1168 1062
DirectX 11 185 FPS 207 FPS
DirectX 12 58 FPS 99 FPS
GPU Compute 11238 Ops/s 14058 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 8219 & 32587 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9060 XT
1623.99
RTX 3080 +195%
4794.67
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 365 & 6862 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9060 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiGeekBench102797
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiSteel Nomad Light14313
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GeForce RTX 3080
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-06 (Henry)Cinebench 202450695
Add View all (1)

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
RX 9060 XT +8%
25924
RTX 3080
24003
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9060 XT +10%
40429
RTX 3080
36895
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9060 XT +52%
22275
RTX 3080
14629
Image Classification (SP) 12380 9439
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 25471
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 19892
Face Detection (HP) 50457 46956
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 104704
Text Classification (SP) 4460 2712
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 4828
Object Detection (SP) 11256 12153
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 36822
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 246005
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and GeForce RTX 3080

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 4, 2025 September 1, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $699
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 44 GA102
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) - Radeon RX 6800 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5080
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (37th and 29th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1440 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 1710 MHz
Shading Units 2048 8704
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 272
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 68
Tensor Cores 64 272
Ray-tracing Cores 32 68
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 5MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 200 GPixel/s 164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 465 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9060 XT
25.6 TFLOPS
RTX 3080 +16%
29.8 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 160 W 320 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 628 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 28 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 44.59 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 10 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1188 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 19000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 320-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9060 XT
320 GB/s
RTX 3080 +138%
760.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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