GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking971not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.99no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCarrizoTU102
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)12 October 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores3844608
Core clock speedno data1350 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1635 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data470.9
Floating-point processing powerno data15.07 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data288
Tensor Coresno data576
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data768.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 12 October 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 250 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has 1983.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 12 GB is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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