AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 11GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2310MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 11GB)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (616.0GB/s vs 576.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +75%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

13.45 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +47%

21457

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

14594

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +48%

86

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

58

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +43%

156

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

109

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +47%

214

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

145

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +30%

65

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

50

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +22%

76

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

62

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +33%

115

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

86

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +50%

122

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +44%

200

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

138

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

200

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

190

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +44%

130

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

90

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4%

152

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

146

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +5%

189

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

180

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Sep 2018

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1350 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

11GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

352bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

616.0GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

68

5120

Shading Units

4352

320

TMUs

272

128

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

544

80

RT Cores

68

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

136.0 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.2 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.90 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.45 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

420.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

TU102

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

TU102-300A-K1-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

18.6 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

754 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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