GeForce RTX 4080 vs Radeon RX 6300 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated3
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data28.91
Power efficiencyno data19.41
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24AD103
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores10249728
Core clock speedno data2205 MHz
Boost clock speed2500 MHz2505 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate160.0761.5
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS48.74 TFLOPS
ROPs32112
TMUs64304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

Form factor & 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data310 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed16 GB/s1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s716.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 320 Watt

RX 6300 XT has 220% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6300 XT and GeForce RTX 4080. We've got no test results to judge.


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