AMD Radeon RX 6800S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6800S and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800S

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1650 MHz
  • Around 16% higher boost clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1815 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 4298x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 8596 vs 2
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 vs 23 July 2019
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Boost clock speed 2100 MHz vs 1815 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8596 vs 2

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 3072 vs 2048
  • 7x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 921 vs 710
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19571 vs 15436
  • Around 60% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 115551 vs 72322
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 3072 vs 2048
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 921 vs 710
PassMark - G3D Mark 19571 vs 15436
Geekbench - OpenCL 115551 vs 72322

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6800S
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
710
921
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15436
19571
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
72322
115551
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8596
2
Name AMD Radeon RX 6800S NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
PassMark - G2D Mark 710 921
PassMark - G3D Mark 15436 19571
Geekbench - OpenCL 72322 115551
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8596 2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 337.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4566.815
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 31.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 190.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1654.321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 27179
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 6800S NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Code name Navi 23 TU104
Launch date 4 Jan 2022 23 July 2019
Place in performance rating 115 116
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2100 MHz 1815 MHz
Compute units 32
Core clock speed 1800 MHz 1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 537.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 17.20 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 8.602 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 3072
Pixel fill rate 134.4 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 268.8 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 11060 million
CUDA cores 3072
Maximum GPU temperature 89 C
Render output units 64

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent
Display Port 1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None 6 pin + 8 pin
Height 4.556” (115.7mm)
Length 10.5” (266.74mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Width 2-Slot

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.1
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.0 GB/s 496 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective 14000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6

Technologies

Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready