NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3523 points

11265 points

219% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

76 FPS

231 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

167 FPS

112 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

55 FPS

204 FPS

149 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

41 FPS

97 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6954 points

19436 points

179% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1824.37 points

2414.65 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

74397 points

157812 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62864 points

100571 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

76635 points

154801 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

72004 points

157877 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

885 MHz

2015 MHz

127% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1185 MHz

2250 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

16 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

512 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

274% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

75.84 Gigapixels/s

288 Gigapixels/s

279% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

170.6 Gigatexels/s

648 Gigatexels/s

279% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.46 TFLOPS

20.74 TFLOPS

279% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

4608

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

288

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

137th of 586

33rd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6800 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6800 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6800 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.