GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G and the PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and has 2944 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition is based on AMD Radeon RX 6800, which has 3840 shaders and 60 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G GPU PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6800
TU104 GPU Chip Navi 21
Turing Architecture RDNA 2
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 60
2944 Shader 3840
64 Render Output Units 96
184 Texture Units 240
46 Raytracing Cores 60

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 452 GB/s.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition can access 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.767 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.1 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
452 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.515 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition is 1.850 GHz.

1.515 GHz Base Clock 1.850 GHz
1.890 GHz Boost Clock 2.190 GHz
1.71 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.98 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G is 250 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

250 W TDP 250 W
300 W TDP (up) 285 W
88 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 120 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 90 mm
AIO water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
0 dB Noise (Load) 36-37 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
3x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
1 USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G is 290 mm long, 131 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition is 320 mm long, 135 mm high and 62 mm wide.

290 mm Length 320 mm
131 mm Height 135 mm
40 mm Width 62 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8G was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 849 $.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Devil Limited Edition was introduced in Q4/2020 at a price of 749 $.

GV-N2080AORUSX W-8GC Part-no AXRX 6800 16GBD6-2DHCE/OC
Q3/2018 Release date Q4/2020
849 $ Launch Price 749 $
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)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

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

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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