GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium vs Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition

GPU comparison with benchmarks The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium has 10496 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 38.10 TFLOPS. The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition has 5120 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 27.96 TFLOPS.

GPU The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 82 streaming multiprocessors. The graphics card Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 80 execution units.
GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium	GPU	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	Based on	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
GA102-300-A1	GPU Chip	Navi 21
Ampere	Architecture	RDNA 2
82	Streaming Multiprocessors	80
10496	Shader	5120
112	Render Output Units	128
328	Texture Units	320
82	Raytracing Cores	80

Memory The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium is equipped with a 24 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.219 GHz clocks. The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.
24 GB	Memory Size	16 GB
GDDR6X	Memory Type	GDDR6
1.219 GHz	Memory Clock	2.000 GHz
19.5 Gbps	Memory Speed	16.0 Gbps
936 GB/s	Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s
384 bit	Memory Interface	256 bit

Clock Speeds The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium has a turbo clock of 1.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition is 2.730 GHz.
1.395 GHz	Base Clock	1.825 GHz
1.815 GHz	Boost Clock	2.730 GHz
1.80 GHz	Avg (Game) Clock	2.38 GHz
Yes	Overclocking	Yes

Thermal Design The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium has 3 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 93 °C. The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.
420 W	TDP	430 W
--	TDP (up)	--
93 °C	Tjunction max	100 °C
3 x 8-Pin	PCIe-Power	1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium are cooled with a Air cooling. The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition is cooled by a AIO water cooling.
Axial	Fan-Type	Axial
2 x 102 mm	Fan 1	3 x 120 mm
1 x 92 mm	Fan 2	1 x 90 mm
Air cooling	Cooler-Type	AIO water cooling
0 dB	Noise (Idle)	0 dB
--	Noise (Load)	--

Connectivity The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3. The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.
4	Max. Displays	4
2.3	HDCP-Version	2.3
1x HDMI v2.1	HDMI Ports	1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a	DP Ports	3x DP v1.4a
--	DVI Ports	--
--	VGA Ports	--
--	USB-C Ports	--

Featureset The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate). The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
7680x4320	Max. resolution	7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate)	DirectX	12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes	Raytracing	Yes
Yes	DLSS / FSR	Yes
Addressable LED	LED	Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Decode / Encode	h264	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	h265 / HEVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	AV1	Decode
Decode	VP8	Decode / Encode
Decode	VP9	Decode / Encode

Dimensions The GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium is 68 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case. The width of the Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition is 68 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
352 mm	Length	270 mm
160 mm	Height	130 mm
68 mm	Width	45 mm
4 PCIe-Slots	Width (Slots)	3 PCIe-Slots
--	Weight	1148 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16	GPU Interface	PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium was released in Q4/2020. The Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition published in Q1/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.
39NXM5MD3BMG	Part-no	11308-08-20G
Q4/2020	Release date	Q1/2021
1,499 $ (Reference)	Launch Price	1,499 $
8 nm	Structure size	7 nm
data sheet	Documents	data sheet

GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium
1.395 GHz, 24 GB (420 W TDP)

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Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition
1.825 GHz, 16 GB (430 W TDP)

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	10554
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	10886

Port Royal (Raytracing)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	13892
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	10945

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	5608
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	4005

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Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	69 fps (avg)
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	78 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	84 fps (avg)
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	91 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	121 fps (avg)
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	138 fps (avg)

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The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	45 fps (avg)
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	46 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	86 fps (avg)
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	90 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	139 fps (avg)
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	153 fps (avg)

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	204918
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	195858

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	179843
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	195913

Geekbench 6 - Metal


	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	285762

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FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)


	GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Premium 24 GB GDDR6X	38.1
	Sapphire Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition 16 GB GDDR6	27.96

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GPU comparison with benchmarks

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Memory

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Thermal Design

Cooler & Fans

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Supported Video Codecs

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