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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5943 points

37% slightly better overall score

4311 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

136 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

89 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

90 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8470 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

7692 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

198% significantly higher Blender score

619.96 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

87462 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

57968 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

70522 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48131 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

65528 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

6% 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

975 MHz

1560 MHz

60% significantly 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

352 GB/s

4% slightly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

99.8 Gigapixels/s

59% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

224.64 Gigatexels/s

20% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

7.19 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

33% slightly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

33% 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

84th of 597

117th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 SUPER Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5600 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5600 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 5600 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q over the Radeon RX 5600 XT.