AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800 XT +105%

20.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6800 XT +77%

19441

GeForce RTX 2080

10946

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +56%

72

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +57%

134

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +48%

188

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +53%

60

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +46%

69

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +52%

102

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +65%

104

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +57%

179

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +25%

199

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +4%

111

GeForce RTX 2080

106

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6800 XT +27%

138

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6800 XT

178

GeForce RTX 2080 +1%

180

Radeon RX 6800 XT

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

1825 MHz

Base Clock

1515 MHz

2250 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

72

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

4608

Shading Units

2944

288

TMUs

184

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

72

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

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

648.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

41.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

1296 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

215W

700 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 XT (215-121000177)

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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