NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (2815MHz vs 1710MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080 +74%

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080 +122%

10946

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +206%

46

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +174%

85

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +170%

127

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +178%

39

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +147%

47

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +116%

67

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +133%

63

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +119%

114

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +128%

158

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +253%

106

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080 +151%

108

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +87%

180

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 20

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

1024

184

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

107W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Navi 24

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

6 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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