NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 349.99
$ 950.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4831 points
19480 points
303% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

106 FPS
480 FPS
374 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

66 FPS
226 FPS
160 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

74 FPS
334 FPS
259 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

50 FPS
183 FPS
133 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7528 points
14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6585 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1636.29 points
8733.11 points
433% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76744 points
241464 points
214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72572 points
217807 points
200% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1365 MHz
2025 MHz
48% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1680 MHz
2375 MHz
41% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
16 GiB
166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
678.4 GB/s
101% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

160 W
162% significantly lower TDP
420 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

80.64 Gigapixels/s
228 Gigapixels/s
182% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.6 Gigatexels/s
760 Gigatexels/s
276% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS
48.64 TFLOPS
653% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920
10240
433% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
320
166% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
96
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 586
9th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 4080 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4080 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4080 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 4080 has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 has a significantly lower TDP at 160 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4080 at 420 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4080 over the GeForce RTX 2060.

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