NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	158	7
Value for money	24.54	13.26
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Vega 10	Ampere GA102
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	19 March 2019 (4 years old)	27 January 2022 (1 year old)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$1,999
Current price	$671	$1251 (0.6x MSRP)

Pro Vega 48 has 85% better value for money than RTX 3090 Ti.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	10752
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1560 MHz
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz	1860 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	450 Watt
Texture fill rate	249.6	625.0

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	336 mm
Width	IGP	3-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 16-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	HBM2	GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1572 MHz	21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	402.4 GB/s	1,008 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	no data	+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.4	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.3
CUDA	no data	8.6

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti outperforms Radeon Pro Vega 48 by 164% in our combined benchmark results.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	75−80 −181%	211 +181%
1440p	50−55 −184%	142 +184%
4K	35−40 −194%	103 +194%

Advantages and disadvantages

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Performance score	29.02	76.56
Recency	19 March 2019	27 January 2022
Memory bus width	2048	384
Memory bandwidth	402.4	1
Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	10752
Chip lithography	14 nm	8 nm

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