NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

5% slightly better overall score

5127 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

124 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

70 FPS

80 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

91 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

11742 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

1392.24 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

93784 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

55272 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

87678 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

97983 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

2300 MHz

212% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

2581 MHz

135% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

Identical

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

61% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

135% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

368 Gigatexels/s

82% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

11.78 TFLOPS

82% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

15% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

100th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2021 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 6800M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6800M graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6800M 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 6800M also has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6800M has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 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 6800M at 145 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.