NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 367.70

$ 382.29 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points

14445 points

103% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS

292 FPS

131 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS

213 FPS

115 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS

260 FPS

146 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS

124 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points

160% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points

2747.99 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points

176249 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points

177326 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz

1890 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz

2310 MHz

35% slightly 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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

576 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

34% slightly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

170% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

134% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

134% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944

5120

73% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

320

73% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September

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 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6950 XT beats the GeForce RTX 2080 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 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 6950 XT also has a slightly 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 6950 XT 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is faster than the GeForce RTX 2080.