AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop (40/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 39.0 Poor
Gaming 39.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 12000-14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500-1750 MHz
Memory Size 8-16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ampere
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Fire Strike 29057
Night Raid 81862
Port Royal 7199
Solar Bay 50311
Time Spy 11989
Wild Life Extreme 24744

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
CUDA 8.6
DLSS DLSS 2
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes
Vulkan 1.2

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
1080p High 125
1080p Ultra 104
1440p Ultra 77
4K Ultra 43
CoD: Modern Warfare III 104977046
Counter-Strike 2 22117212066
Cyberpunk 2077 91805122
Far Cry 6 1151078547
Forza Horizon 5 132877753
Ghost of Tsushima 82675129
Hogwarts Legacy 85725530
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1441319649
The Witcher 3 1511269048

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 28597
Face Detection (HP) 35885
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 6773
Image Segmentation (HP) 19587
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15553
Machine Translation (HP) 4019
Object Detection (SP) 8380
Pose Estimation (Q) 82446
Style Transfer (SP) 184715
Text Classification (SP) 2830

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
API OpenCL
Background Blur 211 img/sec
Edge Detection 8.03 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 123.6 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.17 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.25 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.78 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 17774.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 543.2 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6800M
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ampere
Build Discrete
Case Laptop
GPU Codename GA104 (GN20-E7)
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 12900Hor above
Released January 12, 2021
Segment High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Base Clock 780-1350 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1245-1710 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96
Shading Units 6144
Tensor Cores 192
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
DirectX 11 145 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS
G2D Mark 625
GPU Compute 7049 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Die Size 392 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung
TGP 80-165 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 44.39 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 120-164 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 239-328 GTexel/s

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