AMD Radeon RX 6800 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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 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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 +60%

16.17 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 +48%

16233

GeForce RTX 2080

10946

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +41%

65

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +37%

117

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +32%

168

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +30%

51

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +27%

60

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +29%

87

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 +44%

91

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +56%

178

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 +22%

194

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800

98

GeForce RTX 2080 +8%

106

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 +16%

126

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800

170

GeForce RTX 2080 +5%

180

Radeon RX 6800

VS

GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Sep 2018

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1700 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

2105 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

3840

Shading Units

2944

240

TMUs

184

96

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

60

RT Cores

46

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

202.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

505.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

32.33 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

16.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

1010 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

215W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

TU104

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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