AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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

12GB GDDR6X

Memory

8960

Cores

912.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

$329.99 Jan 2022 View Details

$1,320.00

$329.99

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

$799 • Jan 2022

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

12GB GDDR6X 350W $329.99 Jan 2022

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Memory Size	16 GB	12 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
TDP	335 W	350 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2310 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	912.4 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	8nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Shading Units	5120	8960
RT Cores	80	70
TMUs	320	280
ROPs	128	96
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1188 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	912.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	30.64 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	5.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	628 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	28300 Million
Required PSU	700 W	750 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 (+5%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

20091

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

189857 (+10%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

173382

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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 12 GB

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

28129 (+6%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

26575

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Game Benchmarks Comparison (565 benchmarks)

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+5%)

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+9%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+10%)

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 29 FPS

MIN 24 FPS

Winner

Loser

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+7%)

AVG 90 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+3%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+10%)

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 41 FPS

MIN 37 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories Background

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories

8 2025 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Bordeaux

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+13%)

AVG 119 FPS

MIN 102 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+14%)

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+12%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 58 FPS

MIN 51 FPS

Winner

Loser

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy Background

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy

8.5 2025 • Action, Strategy • Relic Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+9%)

AVG 185 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 169 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+7%)

AVG 142 FPS

MIN 31 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 133 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+3%)

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 14 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Of Ash and Steel

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

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+14%)

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 132 FPS

MIN 118 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+14%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

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

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+7%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 100 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+2%)

AVG 87 FPS

MIN 80 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB Wins!

Based on 565 benchmarks across 161 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

-1.2%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB