AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

amd

Brand

20GB GDDR6

Memory

5376

Cores

800 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 7900 XT

$580.61 Nov 2022 View Details

$599.99

$580.61

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 7900 XT

20GB GDDR6 300W $580.61 Nov 2022

Radeon RX 7900 XT

$899 • Nov 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 7900 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
Memory Size	20 GB	12 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
TDP	300 W	350 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2394 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	800 GB/s	912.4 GB/s
Process Size	5nm	8nm
Architecture	RDNA 3.0	Ampere
Shading Units	5376	8960
RT Cores	84	70
TMUs	336	280
ROPs	192	96
Memory Bus	320-bit	384-bit
Memory Clock	2500 MHz	1188 MHz
Pixel Rate	459.6 GPixel/s	164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	800 GTexel/s	912.4 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	51.48 GFLOPS	30.64 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	6.00 MB	5.00 MB
Die Size	529 mm²	628 mm²
Transistors	57700 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

24671 (+23%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 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

203754 (+18%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 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)

323.2 FPS (+53%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 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

28872 (+9%)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

26575

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Game Benchmarks Comparison (480 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

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+16%)

AVG 79 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 61 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+12%)

AVG 56 FPS

MIN 50 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 45 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+9%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 32 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

Winner

Loser

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

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

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+29%)

AVG 108 FPS

MIN 98 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 75 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+23%)

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 69 FPS

MIN 64 FPS

2160p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+11%)

AVG 50 FPS

MIN 46 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 45 FPS

MIN 40 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 7900 XT (+21%)

AVG 127 FPS

MIN 110 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 105 FPS

MIN 90 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+22%)

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 97 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 88 FPS

MIN 77 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+22%)

AVG 71 FPS

MIN 64 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 (+8%)

AVG 185 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 172 FPS

MIN 47 FPS

1440p

| high

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+11%)

AVG 147 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 133 FPS

MIN 29 FPS

2160p

| high

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+14%)

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 17 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 (+11%)

AVG 151 FPS

MIN 131 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 136 FPS

MIN 122 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB (+13%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

AVG 84 FPS

MIN 76 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

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

1080p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+26%)

AVG 135 FPS

MIN 119 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 107 FPS

MIN 96 FPS

1440p

| ultra

Radeon RX 7900 XT (+32%)

AVG 112 FPS

MIN 101 FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AVG 85 FPS

MIN 79 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Wins!

Based on 480 benchmarks across 141 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

+17.5%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB