GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2310 MHz

TDP 335 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

CORE STATE GA102

VRAM 12 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1710 MHz

TDP 350 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE Ampere

nm

PROCESS 8 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2022

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

4,235

4,791

geekbench_metal

222,653

N/A

geekbench_opencl

175,410

N/A

geekbench_vulkan

164,748

N/A

passmark_directx_10

164

N/A

passmark_directx_11

300

N/A

passmark_directx_12

114

N/A

passmark_directx_9

303

N/A

passmark_g2d

1,063

N/A

passmark_g3d

28,070

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

14,199

N/A

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 6950 XT

RTX 3080 12 GB

Core Specs

Shading Units

5,120

8,960 +75.0%

Shaders

5,120

8,960 +75.0%

TMUs

320

280 -12.5%

ROPs

128

96 -25.0%

Compute Units

80

—

SM Count

—

70

Clocks

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1260 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1710 MHz

Game Clock

2100 MHz

—

Memory Clock

2250 MHz 18 Gbps effective

1188 MHz 19 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB

12 GB

VRAM (MB)

16,384

12,288 -25.0%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR6X

Memory Bus

256 bit

384 bit

Bandwidth

576.0 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

128 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

4 MB

6 MB

L3 Cache

128 MB

—

L0 Cache

32 KB per WGP

—

Performance

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

164.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

23.65 TFLOPS

30.64 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

1,478.4 GFLOPS (1:16)

478.8 GFLOPS (1:64)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

47.31 TFLOPS (2:1)

30.64 TFLOPS (1:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

80

70 -12.5%

Tensor Cores

—

280

Power

TDP

335 W

350 W

TDP (W)

335

350 +4.5%

Suggested PSU

700 W

750 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

1x 12-pin

Architecture

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Ampere

GPU Name

Navi 21

GA102

Generation

Navi II (RX 6000)

GeForce 30

Process Size

7 nm

8 nm

Transistors

26,800 million

28,300 million

Die Size

520 mm²

628 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

Samsung

Density

51.5M / mm²

45.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

8.6

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Triple-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

285 mm 11.2 inches

Height

120 mm 4.7 inches

112 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,099 USD

799 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Navi

GeForce 20

Successor

Navi III

GeForce 40

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