NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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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Price

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$ 1013.18
$ 280.84
$ 732.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7909 points
33% slightly better overall score
5943 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

177 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
126 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

108 FPS
18 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
89 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

127 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
110 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

82 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
52 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11584 points
524% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1854 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2321.66 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
1141.36 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

118678 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
87496 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

111284 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
108282 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1650 MHz
2055 MHz
24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1815 MHz
2635 MHz
45% 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

495.9 GB/s
76% significantly higher memory bandwidth
280.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
176 W
42% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

116.2 Gigapixels/s
168.6 Gigapixels/s
45% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

348.5 Gigatexels/s
3% slightly higher texture rate
337.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.15 TFLOPS
3% slightly better floating point performance
10.79 TFLOPS

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

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

57th of 586
82nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs Radeon RX 6650 XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6650 XT in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly 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. 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6650 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 176 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 250 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER over the Radeon RX 6650 XT.

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