AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 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)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6900 XT +128%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6900 XT +90%

20915

GeForce RTX 2080

10952

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +71%

79

GeForce RTX 2080

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +67%

142

GeForce RTX 2080

85

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +52%

194

GeForce RTX 2080

127

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +69%

66

GeForce RTX 2080

39

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +63%

77

GeForce RTX 2080

47

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +73%

116

GeForce RTX 2080

67

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +80%

114

GeForce RTX 2080

63

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +75%

200

GeForce RTX 2080

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +27%

201

GeForce RTX 2080

158

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +19%

127

GeForce RTX 2080

106

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +40%

152

GeForce RTX 2080

108

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6900 XT +5%

189

GeForce RTX 2080

180

Radeon RX 6900 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

-

SM Count

46

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

2944

320

TMUs

184

128

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

80

RT Cores

46

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

288.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

46.08 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

1440 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

TU104

Navi 21 XTX (215-121000167)

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

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 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

2

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

3

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB

4

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

5

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

6

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

7

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

8

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 560

9

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce G100 OEM

10

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Related News

1

Noctua Announce NH-D15 G2 Air Cooler and NF-A14x25r G2 Fan

2

The P-Cores and E-Cores in Arrow Lake Will Be Interleaved, Reducing Core Communication Latency and Improving Heat Dissipation

3

Changes in Intel Arrow Lake P/E Core Layout: Two Major Benefits

4

Time to Step Up, AMD and Intel! Nvidia Faces Antitrust Lawsuits in France, US, and EU

5

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

6

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

7

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

8

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

9

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

10

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs