AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 36% higher core clock speed: 2055 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Around 54% higher boost clock speed: 2635 MHz vs 1710 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 176 Watt vs 215 Watt
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 914 vs 908
Around 6% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1859 vs 1752

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 May 2022 vs 20 September 2018
Core clock speed	2055 MHz vs 1515 MHz
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz vs 1710 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt vs 215 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	914 vs 908
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859 vs 1752

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Around 44% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 2048
6.4x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective
Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18750 vs 17137
Around 20% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 105219 vs 87479

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2944 vs 2048
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	18750 vs 17137
Geekbench - OpenCL	105219 vs 87479

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

914

908

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

17137

18750

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1859

1752

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

87479

105219

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
PassMark - G2D Mark	914	908
PassMark - G3D Mark	17137	18750
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1859	1752
Geekbench - OpenCL	87479	105219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		326.494
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3938.377
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		31.684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		159.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1506.874
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6293
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		25500
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		6966
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6293

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Turing
Code name	Navi 23	TU104
Launch date	10 May 2022	20 September 2018
Place in performance rating	106	105
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$749.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2635 MHz	1710 MHz
Compute units	32
Core clock speed	2055 MHz	1515 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	674.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	21.59 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.79 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	2944
Pixel fill rate	168.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	337.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	176 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	11060 million	13,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	280.3 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2190 MHz, 17.5 Gbps effective	14000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6