AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

576 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$749.99 May 2022 View Details

$749.99

nvidia

Brand

12GB GDDR6X

Memory

10240

Cores

912.4 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

$989.99 May 2021 View Details

$989.99

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

16GB GDDR6 335W $749.99 May 2022

Radeon RX 6950 XT

$1099 • May 2022

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

$1199 • May 2021

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

12GB GDDR6X 350W $989.99 May 2021

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
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	1665 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	576 GB/s	912.4 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	8nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Ampere
Shading Units	5120	10240
RT Cores	80	80
TMUs	320	320
ROPs	128	112
Memory Bus	256-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	2250 MHz	1188 MHz
Pixel Rate	295.7 GPixel/s	186.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	576 GTexel/s	912.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.65 GFLOPS	34.1 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	6.00 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

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

21408 (+2%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Geekbench 6

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

OpenCL Score

189857

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

196756 (+4%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

GFXBench 5.0

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

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.6 FPS (+34%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

227.3 FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

PassMark G2D

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

G2D Mark

28129 (+4%)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

26976

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Game Benchmarks Comparison (657 benchmarks)

SILENT HILL: Townfall

7.5 2026 • Action, Adventure • Screen Burn

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+0%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+2%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+3%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+0%)

AVG 96 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+2%)

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 60 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AVG 64 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+3%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 32 FPS

Winner

Loser

CONTROL Resonant

7.2 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Remedy Entertainment

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+7%)

AVG 81 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 76 FPS

MIN 69 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+11%)

AVG 61 FPS

MIN 54 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+10%)

AVG 34 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 31 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

The Blood of Dawnwalker

7 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • Rebel Wolves

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+4%)

AVG 51 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AVG 49 FPS

MIN 44 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+0%)

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 34 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 38 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+0%)

AVG 24 FPS

MIN 21 FPS

Winner

Loser

Onimusha: Way of the Sword

8 2026 • Action, Adventure, RPG • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+0%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 88 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+0%)

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 66 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+0%)

AVG 73 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+10%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 39 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 39 FPS

MIN 36 FPS

Winner

Loser

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Background

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

7 2026 • Action, Adventure • Asobo Studio

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+3%)

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 98 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AVG 106 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+10%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AVG 77 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 6950 XT (+4%)

AVG 47 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Winner

Loser

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Background

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta

8 2026 • Action • Infinity Ward, Beenox, Digital Legends, Activision Shanghai, Raven Software, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, High Moon Studios

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+34%)

AVG 43 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+35%)

AVG 27 FPS

MIN 23 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 20 FPS

MIN 17 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (+50%)

AVG 15 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

AVG 10 FPS

MIN 9 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Wins!

Based on 657 benchmarks across 184 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

+2%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti