NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 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

5387 points

6138 points

13% slightly better overall score

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

100 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

84 FPS

106 FPS

22 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

56 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8047 points

9129 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1574.05 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

817.47 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87150 points

0.71% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

86533 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65188 points

77122 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

90092 points

92086 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82332 points

91729 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

735 MHz

1400 MHz

90% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1095 MHz

1750 MHz

59% 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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

1024 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

233% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

70.08 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

64% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

201.5 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

114% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.45 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

114% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

3840

30% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

240

30% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

HBM2

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 VII benchmarks

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

The Radeon VII 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 VII 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 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 VII at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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