AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

576 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$749.99 May 2022 View Details

$829.99

$749.99

nvidia

Brand

10GB GDDR6X

Memory

8704

Cores

760.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3080

$449.99 Aug 2020 View Details

$599.00

$449.99

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 3080

$699 • Aug 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

10GB GDDR6X 320W $449.99 Aug 2020

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Memory Size	16 GB	10 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
TDP	335 W	320 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2310 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	760.3 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	8nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Shading Units	5120	8704
RT Cores	80	68
TMUs	320	272
ROPs	128	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	320-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1188 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	760.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	29.77 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	5.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	628 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	28300 Million
Required PSU	700 W	700 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	Samsung

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

21011 (+10%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

19022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

189857 (+17%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

161903

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.6 FPS (+44%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

211.5 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

28129 (+12%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

25153

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

Game Benchmarks Comparison (332 benchmarks)

Of Ash and Steel

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Fire & Frost

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+14%)

AVG 182 FPS

MIN 147 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 159 FPS

MIN 142 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG, Free To Play • Everstone Studio

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+2%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

Winner

Loser

Borderlands 4

7.8 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Gearbox Software

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+18%)

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+19%)

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 26 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+82%)

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 11 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

Winner

Loser

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

7.9 2025 • Action, Adventure • Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+25%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+38%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 78 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+34%)

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 44 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

1080p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 3080 (+7%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| RTX

GeForce RTX 3080 (+6%)

AVG 36 FPS

MIN 27 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| RTX

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+10%)

AVG 22 FPS

MIN 16 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 12 FPS

Winner

Loser

Sniper Elite Resistance

8.5 2025 • Action, Adventure • Rebellion

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+14%)

AVG 192 FPS

MIN 171 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 153 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+24%)

AVG 160 FPS

MIN 137 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 129 FPS

MIN 113 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+25%)

AVG 99 FPS

MIN 84 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

Winner

Loser

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

8.1 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Square Enix

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+20%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+7%)

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 65 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 72 FPS

MIN 62 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 (+0%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 43 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Wins!

Based on 335 benchmarks across 99 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

+8.1%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3080