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Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 7800 XT leads on 4 of 7 shared benchmarks (22% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 takes 3 (32% in 3DMark Speed Way). On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7800 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 74.2 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (per Hardware Corner GPU LLM Ranking), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 7800 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. Released 2023 (Radeon RX 7800 XT), 2020 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080). MSRP range: $499 · $699. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 7800 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
vram gb 1610
vram type —GDDR6X
tdp w —320
cuda cores —8704

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Overclocking.com, WCCFTech, WePC, Moor Insights & Strategy, 3DMark, Overclock3D, HWBOT, TopCPU.net and UL Benchmarks; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 7800 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test 2.0 (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com		 32—
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com		 27,435 points—
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech		 —21,100 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better)
Source: WePC		 12,331 points—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech		 —10,100 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: Moor Insights & Strategy, WePC, 3DMark, Overclock3D, WCCFTech		 10,318 points11,960 points
3DMark Pure Ray Tracing Feature Test (average fps) (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech		 —48 fps
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, HWBOT, Overclock3D, TopCPU.net, 3DMark		 3,757 points4,969 points
3DMark Speed Way (graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech		 —4,500 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: UL Benchmarks, 3DMark		 4,573 points4,443 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12 graphics score) (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 —4,442 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, Moor Insights & Strategy, 3DMark		 18,928 points15,477 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Radeon RX 7800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 7800 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080?

The Radeon RX 7800 XT leads on 4 of 7 shared benchmarks (22% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 takes 3 (32% in 3DMark Speed Way).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:8b, the Radeon RX 7800 XT generates 711.0 tokens/s (per LocalLLaMA) against 74.2 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (per Hardware Corner GPU LLM Ranking), best community run on file for each.

What did the Radeon RX 7800 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 cost at launch?

The Radeon RX 7800 XT launched at a $499 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 at $699. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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