AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 2080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2080 (37/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent
NanoReview Score 85.0 Very Good
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good
Efficiency 27.0 Poor
Gaming 35.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit)
Bus 256-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Turing
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Tdp 355W TBP

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Fire Strike 27672
Night Raid 100912
Port Royal 6460
Solar Bay 49851
Time Spy 11077
Wild Life Extreme 22307

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
CUDA 7.5
DLSS DLSS 2
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
1080p High 118
1080p Ultra 97
1440p Ultra 72
4K Ultra 40
CoD: Modern Warfare III 97916742
Counter-Strike 2 21316211662
Cyberpunk 2077 86784721
Far Cry 6 112977643
Forza Horizon 5 127807148
Ghost of Tsushima 78634627
Hogwarts Legacy 80655225
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1291228945
The Witcher 3 1441178747

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 28373
Face Detection (HP) 34245
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7122
Image Segmentation (HP) 17897
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16120
Machine Translation (HP) 4328
Object Detection (SP) 8748
Pose Estimation (Q) 69601
Style Transfer (SP) 154510
Text Classification (SP) 2181

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
API OpenCL
Background Blur 191.8 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 115.9 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.56 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.74 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15858.8 FPS
Stereo Matching 499.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Turing
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename TU104
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -AMD Ryzen 9 9900Xor above
Released September 20, 2018
Segment High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5080
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Base Clock 1515 MHz
Boost Clock 1710 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 46
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64
Shading Units 2944
Tensor Cores 368
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
DirectX 11 160 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS
G2D Mark 897
GPU Compute 7719 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Die Size 545 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 215 W
Transistor Count 13 billion
Transistor Density 23.85 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX GeForce RTX 2080
Pixel Fill Rate 109 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 315 GTexel/s

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