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

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

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5758 points

5943 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

132 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

89 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

87 FPS

110 FPS

23 FPS slightly 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

8470 points

356% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1854 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

1851.17 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

1141.36 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

93202 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

87496 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

83136 points

108282 points

30% 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

975 MHz

2635 MHz

170% 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

352 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

120% significantly lower TDP

176 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

62.4 Gigapixels/s

168.6 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

187.2 Gigatexels/s

337.3 Gigatexels/s

80% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.99 TFLOPS

10.79 TFLOPS

80% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3072

49% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

49% 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

87th of 586

82nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 April

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 SUPER Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6650 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6650 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q in our tests.

The Radeon RX 6650 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 6650 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 SUPER Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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 Radeon RX 6650 XT over the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Max-Q.