AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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AMD Radeon RX 560 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1710MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +285%

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560

1788

GeForce RTX 2080 +512%

10952

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 560

3

GeForce RTX 2080 +1433%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 560

12

GeForce RTX 2080 +608%

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 560

21

GeForce RTX 2080 +504%

127

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 560

11

GeForce RTX 2080 +472%

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 560

32

GeForce RTX 2080 +256%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

40

GeForce RTX 2080 +295%

158

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 560

94

GeForce RTX 2080 +91%

180

Radeon RX 560

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2944

64

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

TU104

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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