PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT
vs
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT has 5376 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.50 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 53.76 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero has 3072 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 11.15 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 3 architecture, which has 84 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 48 execution units.
PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
Navi 31 GPU Chip TU104
RDNA 3 Architecture Turing
84 Streaming Multiprocessors 48
5376 Shader 3072
192 Render Output Units 64
336 Texture Units 192
84 Raytracing Cores 48

Memory

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT is equipped with a 20 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.500 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.938GHz.

20 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.938 GHz
20.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.5 Gbps
800 GB/s Memory bandwidth 496 GB/s
320 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT has a turbo clock of 2.500 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is 1.815 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.650 GHz
2.500 GHz Boost Clock 1.815 GHz
2.13 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 89 °C.

300 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) 280 W
97 °C Tjunction max 89 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
1 x 90 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 47 dB

Connectivity

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT is 62 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero is 62 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

320 mm Length 265 mm
119 mm Height 114 mm
62 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 862 g
PCIe 4 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, PowerColor Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT was released in Q4/2022.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

RX 7900 XT 20G-L/OC Part-no --
Q4/2022 Release date Q3/2019
899 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $
5 nm Structure size 12 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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero
8 GB GDDR6
42 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero
8 GB GDDR6
72 fps (avg)

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)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero
8 GB GDDR6
68 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero
8 GB GDDR6
121 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero MSI GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Aero
8 GB GDDR6
166 fps (avg)

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

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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