AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
20
152
98
87
65
The Witcher 3
60
46
27
16
172
140
103
55
Counter-Strike 2
96
67
46
19
253
199
137
80
Far Cry 6
65
55
40
19
133
122
98
59
Hogwarts Legacy
38
29
20
10
101
83
64
34
COD Modern Warfare 3
51
45
29
19
126
117
88
56
Ghost of Tsushima
37
28
21
10
93
75
61
34
Cyberpunk 2077
36
33
19
n/a
109
95
63
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
69
61
36
18
174
156
116
63
Avg FPS
1080p High60146
1080p Ultra46121
1440p Ultra3091
4K Ultra1553
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
4786
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
14202
Time Spy495114660
Solar Bay1997964266
Port Royal3679109
Fire Strike1557735668
Night Raid65281114857
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
53081
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
144745
Background Blur130.3 frames/s211 frames/s
Face Detection70.1 frames/s141.3 frames/s
Horizon Detection1.59 Gpix/sec6.24 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection2.21 Gpix/sec8.1 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur2.02 Gpix/sec9.22 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.65 Gpix/sec1.46 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching223 Gpix/sec627.3 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics7470.5 fps16980.5 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
9578
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
21611
G2D Mark810928
DirectX 1190 fps190 fps
DirectX 1238 fps84 fps
GPU Compute4502 Ops/s10244 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
52.4 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
165.2 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)360.9 fps776.4 fps
Car Chase373.9 fps675.9 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)278.5 fps655.7 fps
T-Rex1305.6 fps3193.1 fps
ALU 21331.2 fps4775.9 fps
Driver Overhead 2259.2 fps278.9 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation1300.54776.1

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced January, 19, 2022 September, 27, 2018
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
Codename Navi 24 TU102
Price 199 999

GPU

GPU Frequency 2310 MHz 1350 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2815 MHz 1545 MHz
Shader Units 1024 4352
TMUs 64 272
ROPs 32 88
Execution Units n/a 68
Ray Tracing Cores 16 68
Tensor Cores No 544
L1 cache 128 KB/core 64 KB/core
L2 cache 1024 KB/core 5632 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 Gpix/sec 136 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTex/s 420 GTex/s
FLOPS 5.8 TFLOPS 13.4 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 107 W 250 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 6 nm 12 nm
Transistor Size 107 mm² 754 mm²
Transistor count 5 billion 18 billion
Transistor density 46.73 MTr/mm² 23.87 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 2248 MHz 1750 MHz
Bus 64 bit 352 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 18000 MB/s 14000 MB/s
Memory Size 4 GB 11 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
616 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 7.5
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti the clear winner in this comparison.

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