AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop (40/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent —
DeviceBenchmark Score 85.0 Very Good —
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent —
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good —
Efficiency — 39.0 Poor
Gaming — 39.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) —
Bus — 256-bit
ECC — No
Effective Memory Speed — 12000-14000 Mbps
Memory Clock — 1500-1750 MHz
Memory Size — 8-16 GB
Memory Type — GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ampere
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors —

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Tdp 355W TBP —

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Fire Strike — 29057
Night Raid — 81862
Port Royal — 7199
Solar Bay — 50311
Time Spy — 11989
Wild Life Extreme — 24744

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
CUDA — 8.6
DLSS — DLSS 2
DirectX — 12
DisplayPort — 1.4a
OpenCL — 2.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — Yes
Vulkan — 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
1080p High — 125
1080p Ultra — 104
1440p Ultra — 77
4K Ultra — 43
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 104977046
Counter-Strike 2 — 22117212066
Cyberpunk 2077 — 91805122
Far Cry 6 — 1151078547
Forza Horizon 5 — 132877753
Ghost of Tsushima — 82675129
Hogwarts Legacy — 85725530
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 1441319649
The Witcher 3 — 1511269048

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 28597
Face Detection (HP) — 35885
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 6773
Image Segmentation (HP) — 19587
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 15553
Machine Translation (HP) — 4019
Object Detection (SP) — 8380
Pose Estimation (Q) — 82446
Style Transfer (SP) — 184715
Text Classification (SP) — 2830

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
API — OpenCL
Background Blur — 211 img/sec
Edge Detection — 8.03 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 123.6 img/sec
Feature Matching — 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 6.25 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 5.78 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 17774.9 FPS
Stereo Matching — 543.2 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
AMD Equivalent — -Radeon RX 6800M
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ampere
Build — Discrete
Case — Laptop
GPU Codename — GA104 (GN20-E7)
Purpose — Gaming
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core i9 12900Hor above
Released — January 12, 2021
Segment — High-end
Successor — -GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Vendor — Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Base Clock — 780-1350 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock — 1245-1710 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 48
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 96
Shading Units — 6144
Tensor Cores — 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 192

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
DirectX 11 — 145 FPS
DirectX 12 — 71 FPS
G2D Mark — 625
GPU Compute — 7049 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Die Size — 392 mm²
Fabrication Process — 8 nm
Interface — PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing — Samsung
TGP — 80-165 W (configurable)
Transistor Count — 17.4 billion
Transistor Density — 44.39 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate — 120-164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 239-328 GTexel/s

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