GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G
vs
PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G has 10240 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.77 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 36.25 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate has 5120 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.53 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 25.86 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ampere architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 80 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G GPU PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
GA102-225-A1 GPU Chip Navi 21
Ampere Architecture RDNA 2
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
10240 Shader 5120
112 Render Output Units 128
320 Texture Units 320
80 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G is equipped with a 12 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.188 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

12 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR6
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
912 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G has a turbo clock of 1.770 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is 2.525 GHz.

1.365 GHz Base Clock 1.825 GHz
1.770 GHz Boost Clock 2.525 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.38 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G has 2 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 PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is equipped with a 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

350 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) 345 W
93 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G are cooled with a AIO water cooling.

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is cooled by a Water cooling.

Axial Fan-Type --
2 x 120 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Water cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
0 dB Noise (Load) 0 dB

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
3x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate 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
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion 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 GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

252 mm Length 266 mm
135 mm Height 162 mm
40 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 8 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE 12G was released in Q2/2021.

The PowerColor Liquid Devil Radeon RX 6900 XT Ultimate published in Q2/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

GV-N308TAORUSX W-12GD Part-no AXRX 6900XTU 16GBD6-W2DHC/OC
Q2/2021 Release date Q2/2021
1,199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 999 $ (Reference)
8 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

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)

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