NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1815 MHz vs 1630 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
7.4x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Launch date	23 July 2019 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	1815 MHz vs 1630 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1890 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Around 33% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3072
Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 67% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 117526

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	4096 vs 3072
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	196748 vs 117526

Compare benchmarks

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

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

117526

196748

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	19611
PassMark - G2D Mark	927
Geekbench - OpenCL	117526	196748
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super	AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 5.0
Code name	TU104	Vega 10
Launch date	23 July 2019	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	109	34
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1815 MHz	1630 MHz
Core clock speed	1650 MHz	1500 MHz
CUDA cores	3072
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	89 C
Pipelines	3072	4096
Render output units	64
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	225 Watt
Floating-point performance		13,353 gflops
Texture fill rate		417.3 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Port	1.4
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Multi monitor support
Number of simultaneous displays	4
Display Connectors		1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.556” (115.7mm)
Length	10.5” (266.74mm)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	6 pin + 8 pin	2x 8-pin
Width	2-Slot
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.1
OpenGL	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	496 GB/s	483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Technologies
Ansel
HDMI 2.0b
SLI
VR Ready