Radeon RX 6950 XT vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated17
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data27.15
Power efficiencyno data14.94
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGA103SNavi 21
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date25 January 2022 (2 years ago)10 May 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,099

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores74245120
Core clock speed585 MHz1925 MHz
Boost clock speed1125 MHz2324 MHz
Number of transistorsno data26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt335 Watt
Texture fill rate261.0743.7
Floating-point processing power16.7 TFLOPS23.8 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs232320
Tensor Cores232no data
Ray Tracing Cores5880

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 January 2022 10 May 2022
Chip lithography 8 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 335 Watt

RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q has 318.8% lower power consumption.

RX 6950 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q and Radeon RX 6950 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6950 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q
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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
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