GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking22not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation29.85no data
Power efficiency16.00no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21GA103S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)25 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$999 no data

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 cores51207424
Core clock speed1825 MHz585 MHz
Boost clock speed2250 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate720.0261.0
Floating-point processing power23.04 TFLOPS16.7 TFLOPS
ROPs12896
TMUs320232
Tensor Coresno data232
Ray Tracing Cores8058

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
Length267 mmno data
Width3-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 speed2000 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s384.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs
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
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 25 January 2022
Chip lithography 7 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 80 Watt

RX 6900 XT has a 14.3% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 275% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 XT and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6900 XT is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
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