NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 - 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 184 Watt vs 300 Watt
Launch date 7 Dec 2021 vs 28 Oct 2020
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 184 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

  • Around 24% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1470 MHz
  • Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 2250 MHz vs 1650 MHz
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 648.0 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 4608 vs 2176
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 12 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
  • Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1018 vs 836
  • Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25026 vs 15917
  • 2.4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 19444 vs 8017
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1825 MHz vs 1470 MHz
Boost clock speed 2250 MHz vs 1650 MHz
Texture fill rate 648.0 GTexel/s vs 224.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4608 vs 2176
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 12 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1018 vs 836
PassMark - G3D Mark 25026 vs 15917
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 19444 vs 8017

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
836
1018
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15917
25026
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
8017
19444
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 836 1018
PassMark - G3D Mark 15917 25026
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 8017 19444
Geekbench - OpenCL 151934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 578.52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 52.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 291.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2700.97
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3374
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3374

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Essentials

Architecture Turing RDNA 2.0
Code name TU106 Navi 21
Launch date 7 Dec 2021 28 Oct 2020
Place in performance rating 72 69
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1650 MHz 2250 MHz
Core clock speed 1470 MHz 1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 7 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 224.4 GFLOPS (1:32) 1296 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 14.36 TFLOPS (2:1) 41.47 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 7.181 TFLOPS 20.74 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2176 4608
Pixel fill rate 79.20 GPixel/s 288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 224.4 GTexel/s 648.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 184 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 10800 million 26800 million
Compute units 72

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches 50 mm (2 inches)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 229 mm, 9 inches 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 113 mm, 4.4 inches 120 mm (4.7 inches)

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6