Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample - video card comparison

Radeon RX 6500 XT

GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample

Architecture

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Navi 24

TU104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

2815 MHz

1710 MHz

Core clock speed

2610 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

7 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

5,400 million

13,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

3072

Power consumption (TDP)

107 Watt

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

180.2

328.3

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

18000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

143.9 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

2.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3