PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and has 4608 texture shaders and 72 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, which has 8704 shaders and 68 execution units.
PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Navi 21 XT GPU Chip GA102-200-K1-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Ampere
72 Streaming Multiprocessors 68
4608 Shader 8704
128 Render Output Units 96
288 Texture Units 272
72 Raytracing Cores 68

Memory

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G can access 10 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 760 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 10 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.188 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 19.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 760 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 320 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT clocks in the base with up to 1.900 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G is 1.440 GHz.

1.900 GHz Base Clock 1.440 GHz
2.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
2.09 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G has a TDP of 320 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 320 W
345 W TDP (up) 370 W
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 120 mm
1 x 90 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
36-38 dB Noise (Load) 0 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT is 320 mm long, 135 mm high and 62 mm wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G is 252 mm long, 135 mm high and 40 mm wide.

320 mm Length 252 mm
135 mm Height 135 mm
62 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1610 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 6800 XT was released in Q1/2021 at a price of 799 $.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 Xtreme Waterforce 10G was introduced in Q4/2020 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

AXRX 6800XT 16GBD6-3DHE/OC Part-no GV-N3080AORUSX W-10GD
Q1/2021 Release date Q4/2020
799 $ Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 8 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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