The good news is, with the release of the RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 2080 SUPER 's price is getting more discount. Spec for spec, this RTX 2080 SUPER leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the GTX 1080, by boasting 32.8 % more fps.
Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RTX 2080 SUPER consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the GTX 1080, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and it really justifies an upgrade. For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play Forspoken, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Atomic Heart, Halo Infinite, Assassin's Creed Valhalla at 63 fps to 69 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps.
For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Marvel's Avengers, Metro Exodus, Cyberpunk 2077, Total War: Warhammer III, Borderlands 3 at 64 fps to 67 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 65 fps. For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Resident Evil 2, Far Cry 5, Far Cry New Dawn, Death Stranding, Resident Evil 4 at 61 fps to 65 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps.
The good news is, with the release of the RX 6800 XT, the RX 6800 's price is getting more discount. The RX 6800 is much more expensive than the RX 5700 as it costs a whopping $ 579. Compare this to the RX 5700, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, which came originally at a price of $ 349, $ 399. Meanwhile, the NVIDIA closest equivalent card is the RTX 3070 which costs $ 499.
Spec for spec, this RX 6800 leapfrogs its direct predecessor, the RX 5700, by boasting 75.2 % more fps. The RX 6800 has 16 GB RAM compared to the RX 5700 's 8 GB video memory.
Compared to its NVIDIA 's closest rival, RTX 3070, the RX 6800 was 10.4 % faster. Fortunately, gaming performance was quite impressive. The RX 6800 consistently delivers great frame rate increases over the RX 5700, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and it really justifies an upgrade.
For 1080p Full HD, we were able to play The Callisto Protocol, Remnant II, The Last of Us Part I, Halo Infinite, Forspoken at 64 fps to 82 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 72 fps. For 1440p Quad HD, we were able to play Atomic Heart, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Hogwarts Legacy, Dead Space, Halo Infinite at 61 fps to 74 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 68 fps.
For 2160p 4K, we were able to play Far Cry 6, Total War: Warhammer III, Guardians of the Galaxy, Battlefield 2042, Gears of War 5 at 61 fps to 65 fps and kept frame rates hovering around 63 fps.
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Board Number | PG181 | - |
| Length | 10.5 inches 267 mm | 267 mm 10.5 inches |
| Outputs | 1x HDMI3x DisplayPort1x USB Type-C | 1x HDMI 2x DisplayPort 1x USB Type-C |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Slot Width | Dual-slot | Dual-slot |
| TDP | 215 W | 250 W |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 1815 MHz | 2105 MHz |
| GPU Clock | 1650 MHz | 1815 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1937 MHz 15496 MHz effective | 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Generation | GeForce 20 | Navi II |
| Launch Price | 699 USD | 579 USD |
| Production | Active | Active |
| Release Date | Jul 23rd, 2019 | Nov 18th, 2020 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.5 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.109 | 1.2 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Turing | RDNA 2.0 |
| Die Size | 545 mm² | 536 mm² |
| GPU Name | TU104 | Navi 21 |
| GPU Variant | TU104-400-A1 | Navi 21 XL |
| Process Size | 12 nm | 7 nm |
| Transistors | 13,600 million | 26,800 million |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth | 495.9 GB/s | 512.0 GB/s |
| Memory Bus | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Size | 8192 MB | 16384 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| ROPs | 64 | 96 |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 3840 |
| TMUs | 192 | 240 |
| RTX 2080 SUPER | RX 6800 | |
|---|---|---|
| FP16 (half) performance | 22,300 GFLOPS (2:1) | 32.33 TFLOPS (2:1) |
| FP32 (float) performance | 11,150 GFLOPS | 16.17 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) performance | 348.5 GFLOPS (1:32) | 1,010 GFLOPS (1:16) |
| Pixel Rate | 116.2 GPixel/s | 202.1 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 348.5 GTexel/s | 505.2 GTexel/s |
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