GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G
vs
AMD Radeon Pro VII


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (Turing) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 496 GB/s.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII is based on the AMD Radeon VII (GCN 5.1) and has 16 GB HBM2 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 1024 GB/s.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G has the TU104 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Turing architecture.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII is based on the graphics chip Vega 20 XT, which comes from the GCN 5.1 architecture.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G GPU AMD Radeon Pro VII
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Based on AMD Radeon VII
TU104 GPU Chip Vega 20 XT
Turing Architecture GCN 5.1
48 Streaming Multiprocessors 60
3072 Shader 3840
64 Render Output Units 64
192 Texture Units 240
48 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G clocks at 1.938 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 15.5 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the AMD Radeon Pro VII is 2.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.000 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type HBM2
1.938 GHz Memory Clock 1.000 GHz
15.5 Gbps Memory Speed 2.0 Gbps
496 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 4096 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.650 GHz Base Clock 1.400 GHz
1.860 GHz Boost Clock 1.700 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 250 W.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 250 W.

250 W TDP 250 W
280 W TDP (up) --
89 °C Tjunction max 99 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G is equipped with a total of 0 -- main fans.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII has 1 Radial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Radial
-- Fan 1 1 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 42 dB
0 dB Noise (Load) 58 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version --
3x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports --
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 6x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the AMD Radeon Pro VII is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

291 mm Length 283 mm
159 mm Height 130 mm
29 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Waterforce WB 8G has been manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers since Q3/2019.

The AMD Radeon Pro VII came on the market in Q1/2019 and will have a structure width of 7 nanometers manufactured.

GV-N208SAORUS WB-8GC Part-no RX-VEGMA3FD6
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2019
949 $ Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon Pro VII AMD Radeon Pro VII
16 GB HBM2
74108

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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