NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1515 MHz vs 1156 MHz
  • Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 1710 MHz vs 1247 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 215 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 8.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Launch date 20 September 2018 vs 1 October 2017
Core clock speed 1515 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Boost clock speed 1710 MHz vs 1247 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 215 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

  • 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 Nano

Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano
PassMark - G3D Mark 18750
PassMark - G2D Mark 908
Geekbench - OpenCL 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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1752

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Nano

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 5.0
Code name TU104 Vega 10
Launch date 20 September 2018 1 October 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Place in performance rating 105 not rated
Price now $749.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 32.34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1710 MHz 1247 MHz
Core clock speed 1515 MHz 1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 2944 4096
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 215 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 million 12,500 million
Floating-point performance 10,215 gflops
Texture fill rate 319.2 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 152 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 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 409.6 GB / s