AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800 XT and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2430MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 10GB)

Lower TDP (263W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 624.1GB/s)

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7800 XT +25%

37.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

29.77 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 7800 XT +13%

20026

GeForce RTX 3080

17711

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +6%

84

GeForce RTX 3080

79

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +15%

160

GeForce RTX 3080

139

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +37%

248

GeForce RTX 3080

181

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT

43

GeForce RTX 3080 +41%

61

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +56%

113

GeForce RTX 3080

72

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +57%

167

GeForce RTX 3080

106

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +50%

140

GeForce RTX 3080

93

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT

140

GeForce RTX 3080

141

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +10%

190

GeForce RTX 3080

172

Horizon Forbidden West 1080p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +3%

98

GeForce RTX 3080

95

Horizon Forbidden West 1440p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +8%

81

GeForce RTX 3080

75

Horizon Forbidden West 2160p

Radeon RX 7800 XT +4%

52

GeForce RTX 3080

50

Radeon RX 7800 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Sep 2020

Navi III

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1295 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

2430 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

68

60

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

8704

240

TMUs

272

96

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

272

60

RT Cores

68

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

233.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

583.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

74.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

37.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

1166 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 32

GPU Name

GA102

Navi 32 XT (215-180000006)

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

28.1 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

346 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

263W

TDP

320W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x HDMI 2.1a 3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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