AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Around 77% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1590 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 150 Watt
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 804

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 29 January 2019
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1590 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt vs 150 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	812 vs 804

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

2.9x more pipelines: 2944 vs 1024
5.3x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15014 vs 9583
42.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 10073 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2944 vs 1024
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	15014 vs 9583
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	10073 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

812

804

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9583

15014

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

235

10073

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark	812	804
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583	15014
Geekbench - OpenCL	48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	235	10073
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		22622
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		6319
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		6319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		5714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		5714

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Turing
Code name	Navi 24	TU104
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	29 January 2019
Place in performance rating	216	95
Price now		$699.99
Type		Laptop
Value for money (0-100)		37.18
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1590 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024	2944
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	13,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	12000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6