NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 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

5943 points

10% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

126 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

89 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

110 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

334% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1854 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

1141.36 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

87496 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

108282 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2055 MHz

179% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

2635 MHz

140% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

Identical

8 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

36% slightly higher memory bandwidth

280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

95% significantly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

140% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

67% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

67% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

43% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

43% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2022 May

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 6650 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q beats the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6650 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 6650 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6650 XT at 176 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q over the Radeon RX 6650 XT.