NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT 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

7102 points

3% slightly better overall score

6870 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

144 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

104 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

130 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

60 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

381% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2289 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

1438.44 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97794 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

104773 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

2321 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2581 MHz

50% 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

448 GB/s

3% slightly higher memory bandwidth

432 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

165 W

51% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

51% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

415.68 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

13.3 TFLOPS

32% slightly 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

67th of 586

69th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

2022 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 vs Radeon RX 6850M XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6850M XT GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6850M 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 6850M XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6850M XT has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6850M XT has a significantly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6850M XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080.