AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 3080

[ 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 (53/100), 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
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent —
DeviceBenchmark Score 85.0 Very Good —
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent —
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good —
Efficiency — 35.0 Poor
Gaming — 54.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) —
Bus — 320-bit
ECC — No
Effective Memory Speed — 19000 Mbps
Memory Clock — 1188 MHz
Memory Size — 10 GB
Memory Type — GDDR6X

Performance

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

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Fire Strike — 42472
Night Raid — 133004
Port Royal — 11597
Solar Bay — 85898
Time Spy — 17664
Wild Life Extreme — 37900

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
CUDA — 8.6
DLSS — DLSS 2
DirectX — 12
DisplayPort — 1.4a
OpenCL — 3.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — Yes
Vulkan — 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
1080p High — 167
1080p Ultra — 141
1440p Ultra — 108
4K Ultra — 64
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 15214511073
Counter-Strike 2 — 27420614982
Cyberpunk 2077 — 1351177936
Far Cry 6 — 14513811472
Forza Horizon 5 — 17011410480
Ghost of Tsushima — 109897444
Hogwarts Legacy — 119987843
Margin of Error — Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 21019515182
The Witcher 3 — 18916511663

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 36822
Face Detection (HP) — 46956
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 9439
Image Segmentation (HP) — 25471
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 19892
Machine Translation (HP) — 4828
Object Detection (SP) — 12153
Pose Estimation (Q) — 104704
Style Transfer (SP) — 246005
Text Classification (SP) — 2712

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
API — OpenCL
Background Blur — 217.3 img/sec
Edge Detection — 11 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 141.9 img/sec
Feature Matching — 1.29 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 8.43 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 8.19 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 22538.5 FPS
Stereo Matching — 780.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
AMD Equivalent — -Radeon RX 6800 XT
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ampere
Build — Discrete
Case — Desktop
GPU Codename — GA102
Launch price (MSRP) — $699
Purpose — Gaming
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core i7 12700Kor above
Released — September 1, 2020
Segment — High-end
Successor — -GeForce RTX 5080
Vendor — Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Base Clock — 1440 MHz
Boost Clock — 1710 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 68
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 5MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 68
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 96
Shading Units — 8704
Tensor Cores — 272
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 272

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
DirectX 11 — 207 FPS
DirectX 12 — 99 FPS
G2D Mark — 1062
GPU Compute — 14058 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Die Size — 628 mm²
Fabrication Process — 8 nm
Interface — PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing — Samsung
TGP — 320 W
Transistor Count — 28 billion
Transistor Density — 44.59 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Pixel Fill Rate — 164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 465 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-08-06(Henry) — Cinebench 2024

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