AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 2070

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB with 4608 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 2304 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
48.8
(Average)
Value Index
17.2
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2070 over RX 6800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (20.7 vs 7.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 91% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 111 vs 58 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Achieves 42% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (138K vs 97K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (4608 vs 2304)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
198
131
109
83
109
70
56
40
The Witcher 3
192
173
127
68
124
100
73
38
Counter-Strike 2
285
203
145
80
181
132
96
48
Far Cry 6
164
144
120
75
92
83
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
120
96
76
42
65
56
41
19
CoD: Modern Warfare III
168
160
116
76
79
74
50
34
Ghost of Tsushima
125
104
84
53
64
50
36
20
Cyberpunk 2077
129
116
79
36
67
63
35
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
209
191
142
74
106
98
68
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 177 99
1080p Ultra 146 81
1440p Ultra 111 58
4K Ultra 65 32
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6800 XT +107%
17589
8492
Time Spy 19379 9074
Solar Bay 78685 39675
Port Royal 9715 5194
Fire Strike 53014 23208
Wild Life Extreme 35635 18257
Night Raid 155323 92357
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6800 XT +42%
138858
97923
Background Blur 335.7 img/sec 200 img/sec
Face Detection 221.1 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.16 Gpixels/sec 3.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.96 Gpixels/sec 4.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.44 Gpixels/sec 4.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.31 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 263 Gpixels/sec 452 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14755 FPS 11141.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6800 XT +45%
8578
5899

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6800 XT +56%
25100
16057
G2D Mark 1046 816
DirectX 11 265 FPS 130 FPS
DirectX 12 100 FPS 61 FPS
GPU Compute 13077 Ops/s 6376 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 8012 & 16971 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6800 XT +10%
2421.91
2194.14
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1120 & 937 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 6800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-10 (XYQUE)Cinebench 202441600
GeForce RTX 2070
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6800 XT +139%
30220
12633
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6800 XT +49%
30423
20355
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6800 XT +151%
22583
8999
Image Classification (SP) 11942 5244
Image Segmentation (HP) 7603 9644
Image Super Resolution (Q) 30511 13716
Face Detection (HP) 42862 21326
Pose Estimation (Q) 160019 57284
Text Classification (SP) 4247 1857
Machine Translation (HP) 6279 2542
Object Detection (SP) 13910 6466
Depth Estimation (Q) 51794 22978
Style Transfer (SP) 324124 111896
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6800 XT and GeForce RTX 2070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released November 18, 2020 October 17, 2018
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 21 TU106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4070 - Radeon RX 5700 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 XT - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 12700K or above - Intel Core i7 9700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (31st and 66th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1825 MHz 1410 MHz
Boost Clock 2250 MHz 1620 MHz
Shading Units 4608 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 288 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 36
Tensor Cores - 288
Ray-tracing Cores 72 36
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 288 GPixel/s 104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 648 GTexel/s 233 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6800 XT +176%
20.7 TFLOPS
7.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 300 W 175 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 nm
Die Size 520 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 26 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 50 MTr/mm² 22.47 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6800 XT +14%
512 GB/s
448 GB/s

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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