NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 367.70
$ 495.93 significantly less expensive
$ 863.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

7102 points
24895 points
250% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

161 FPS
529 FPS
367 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

97 FPS
351 FPS
253 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

114 FPS
477 FPS
363 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

73 FPS
207 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11016 points
61% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6837 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2341.39 points
4050.95 points
73% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112025 points
212685 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

107797 points
238996 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1515 MHz
1855 MHz
22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
2500 MHz
46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
24 GiB
200% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
384 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
960 GB/s
114% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W
42% slightly lower TDP
355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

109.4 Gigapixels/s
480 Gigapixels/s
338% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

314.6 Gigatexels/s
960 Gigatexels/s
205% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.07 TFLOPS
61.42 TFLOPS
509% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2944
6144
108% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
384
108% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
192
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 586
3rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 September
2022 December

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 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX beats the GeForce RTX 2080 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX 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 7900 XTX 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2080 has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is better than the GeForce RTX 2080.

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