AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Price

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$ 488.33

$ 367.70

$ 120.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5396 points

7102 points

31% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

161 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

97 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

114 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

73 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

11016 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

2341.39 points

139% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

105930 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

87178 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

112025 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

107797 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

1515 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1710 MHz

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

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

Identical

448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

11% slightly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

109.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

314.6 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

10.07 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

2944

15% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

184

15% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

67th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2018 September

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

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 2080 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 5700 XT in our tests.

The Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT also has a slightly 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 they both have the same amount of memory at 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2080 at 250 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 2080 over the Radeon RX 5700 XT.