NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid 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 - 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

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1677 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 215 Watt vs 225 Watt
7.4x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Around 41% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 10970 vs 7765

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 September 2018 vs 8 August 2017
Core clock speed	1515 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	215 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1890 MHz
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	10970 vs 7765

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

Around 39% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2944

Pipelines	4096 vs 2944

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

10970

7765

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
PassMark - G3D Mark	18811
PassMark - G2D Mark	912
Geekbench - OpenCL	102535
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	10970	7765

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 5.0
Code name	TU104	Vega 10
Launch date	20 September 2018	8 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$699
Place in performance rating	98	255
Price now	$749.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	32.34
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz	1677 MHz
Core clock speed	1515 MHz	1406 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	2944	4096
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	215 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	13,600 million
Floating-point performance		13,738 gflops
Texture fill rate		429.3 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1890 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount		8 GB
Memory bandwidth		483.8 GB / s