AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11228 points

13945 points

24% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

230 FPS

323 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

166 FPS

174 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

204 FPS

241 FPS

38 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

97 FPS

136 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2414.65 points

6555.01 points

171% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

154801 points

179169 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

157877 points

164101 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2015 MHz

106% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

1500 MHz

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

512 GB/s

896 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

80 W

274% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

100% significantly higher pixel rate

144 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

648 Gigatexels/s

79% significantly higher texture rate

360 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4608

7680

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

288

20% slightly more texture mapping units

240

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

33rd of 597

25th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop beats the Radeon RX 6800 XT in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6800 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 6800 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 300 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 5080 Laptop over the Radeon RX 6800 XT.