NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (2105MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +60%

16.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080

10946

Radeon RX 6800 +48%

16233

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Radeon RX 6800 +41%

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Radeon RX 6800 +37%

117

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Radeon RX 6800 +32%

168

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Radeon RX 6800 +30%

51

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Radeon RX 6800 +27%

60

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Radeon RX 6800 +29%

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Radeon RX 6800 +44%

91

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Radeon RX 6800 +56%

178

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

158

Radeon RX 6800 +22%

194

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080 +8%

106

Radeon RX 6800

98

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

108

Radeon RX 6800 +16%

126

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +5%

180

Radeon RX 6800

170

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 20

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1515 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

60

46

SM Count

-

2944

Shading Units

3840

184

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

96

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

60

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Navi 21

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

13.6 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

545 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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