GeForce RTX 4080 vs Radeon RX 6900 XTX

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated3
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data29.01
Power efficiencyno data19.25
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21AD103
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,199

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 cores51209728
Core clock speed2075 MHz2205 MHz
Boost clock speed2435 MHz2505 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate779.2761.5
Floating-point processing power24.93 TFLOPS48.74 TFLOPS
ROPs128112
TMUs320304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Cores8076

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 mm310 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 16-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth576.0 GB/s716.8 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 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C1x HDMI 2.1, 3x 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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 20 September 2022
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 320 Watt

RTX 4080 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 3.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 XTX and GeForce RTX 4080. We've got no test results to judge.


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