Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE
vs
Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE is based on the AMD RX Vega 64 (GCN 5) and has 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 (Turing) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE has the Vega 10 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 5 architecture.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS is based on the graphics chip TU104, which comes from the Turing architecture.
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE GPU Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS
AMD RX Vega 64 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
Vega 10 XT GPU Chip TU104
GCN 5 Architecture Turing
64 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
4096 Shader 2944
64 Render Output Units 64
256 Texture Units 184
0 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE clocks at 0.945 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 1.9 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR6
0.945 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
1.9 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
484 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

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

1.423 GHz Base Clock 1.515 GHz
1.611 GHz Boost Clock 1.815 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.71 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 295 W.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS has 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 215 W.

295 W TDP 215 W
375 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 88 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE is equipped with a total of 3 Radial main fans.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS has 3 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 92 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
1 x 80 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED Addressable LED

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 / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

310 mm Length 292 mm
133 mm Height 130 mm
54 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 LE has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q3/2017.

The Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Phantom GS came on the market in Q3/2018 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

11275-00-40G Part-no 426018336-4184
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2018
499 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
14 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)

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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