NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

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

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 XT +105%

20.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2080

10952

Radeon RX 6800 XT +77%

19428

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Radeon RX 6800 XT +56%

72

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Radeon RX 6800 XT +57%

134

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Radeon RX 6800 XT +48%

188

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Radeon RX 6800 XT +53%

60

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Radeon RX 6800 XT +46%

69

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Radeon RX 6800 XT +52%

102

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Radeon RX 6800 XT +65%

104

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Radeon RX 6800 XT +57%

179

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080

158

Radeon RX 6800 XT +25%

199

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2080

106

Radeon RX 6800 XT +4%

111

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2080

108

Radeon RX 6800 XT +27%

138

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2080 +1%

180

Radeon RX 6800 XT

178

GeForce RTX 2080

VS

Radeon RX 6800 XT

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

1825 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 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

46

SM Count

-

Compute Units

72

2944

Shading Units

4608

184

TMUs

288

64

ROPs

128

368

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

72

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

109.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

288.0 GPixel/s

314.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

648.0 GTexel/s

20.14 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

41.47 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.74 TFLOPS

314.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1296 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU104

GPU Name

Navi 21

TU104-400A-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XT (215-121000177)

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

Board Design

215W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 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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