AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 8 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

5396 points

0.17% slightly better overall score

5387 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

124 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

11 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

70 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

84 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

56 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

8047 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

1574.05 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

87150 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

65188 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

90092 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

82332 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

118% significantly higher core clock speed

735 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

73% significantly higher boost clock speed

1095 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

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

90 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

70.08 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

51% significantly higher texture rate

201.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

51% significantly better floating point performance

6.45 TFLOPS

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

94th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2019 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

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a significantly 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 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, 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 GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 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 5700 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q.