NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 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

5387 points

24% slightly better overall score

4311 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

89 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

7692 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

153% significantly higher Blender score

619.96 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

57968 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48131 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

65528 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

77765 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1130 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1560 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

66% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

42% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

11% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

11% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

27% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

27% slightly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2020 January

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 2080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5600 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 5600 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5600 XT 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 Radeon RX 5600 XT also has a slightly 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 GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has slightly more memory with 8 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 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5600 XT at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT.