Radeon RX 6800 XT vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated28
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data50.58
Power efficiencyno data14.84
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BNavi 21
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date29 January 2019 (5 years ago)28 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19204608
Core clock speed960 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz2250 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate144.0648.0
Floating-point processing power4.608 TFLOPS20.74 TFLOPS
ROPs48128
TMUs120288
Tensor Cores240no data
Ray Tracing Cores3072

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1353 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth259.8 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1401.2
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 January 2019 28 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh has 160.9% lower power consumption.

RX 6800 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh and Radeon RX 6800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6800 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Refresh
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
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