AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
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We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB with 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 6 months older GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB that utilizes 68 pipelines and 4352 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6700 XT
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 21% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 92 vs 76 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 60% higher memory bandwidth: 616 vs 384 GB/s
- Achieves 31% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (144K vs 110K)
- Has 70% more shading units (4352 vs 2560)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 158 93 74 53 |
150 101 89 65 |
| The Witcher 3 | 145 122 88 45 |
175 142 104 55 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 229 156 111 61 |
253 193 140 81 |
| Far Cry 6 | 121 106 82 50 |
132 122 101 61 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 85 74 53 27 |
101 85 65 36 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 118 113 75 50 |
124 117 85 56 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 91 73 56 30 |
92 79 61 36 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 91 80 47 21 |
112 96 63 30 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 153 139 95 48 |
171 161 120 63 |
| 1080p High | 132 | 146 |
| 1080p Ultra | 106 | 122 |
| 1440p Ultra | 76 | 92 |
| 4K Ultra | 43 | 54 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12818 | 14655 |
| Solar Bay | 50228 | 64022 |
| Port Royal | 6206 | 9109 |
| Fire Strike | 35843 | 35666 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 22931 | 29561 |
| Night Raid | 130269 | 115542 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 245.8 img/sec | 211 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 153.3 img/sec | 141.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.99 Gpixels/sec | 6.24 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.82 Gpixels/sec | 8.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.37 Gpixels/sec | 9.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.01 Gpixels/sec | 1.46 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 474.4 Gpixels/sec | 627.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13872.6 FPS | 16980.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 954 | 926 |
| DirectX 11 | 172 FPS | 193 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 77 FPS | 83 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9228 Ops/s | 9831 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 9076 | 8213 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 10972 | 19891 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 24228 | 17598 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 32365 | 39785 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 100249 | 84003 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2204 | 2062 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4803 | 4192 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9882 | 10444 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 37762 | 31856 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 210688 | 207773 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6700 XT and GeForce RTX 2080 TiGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 3, 2021 | September 27, 2018 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $479 | $999 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Turing |
| GPU Codename | Navi 22 | TU102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 | - |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 | - GeForce RTX 3080 Ti |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above | - Intel Core i9 9900K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (47th and 41st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2321 MHz | 1350 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2581 MHz | 1545 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 4352 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 272 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 88 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 68 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 544 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 68 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 3MB shared | 5632KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 165 GPixel/s | 136 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 413 GTexel/s | 420 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 230 W | 250 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 335 mm² | 754 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17 billion | 18 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50.75 MTr/mm² | 23.87 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 11 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 352-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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