GeForce RTX 2080 vs Radeon R7 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated64
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data27.77
Power efficiencyno data15.75
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameSpectreTU104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 January 2014 (10 years ago)20 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$699

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 cores5122944
Core clock speed720 MHz1515 MHz
Boost clock speed980 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt215 Watt
Texture fill rate31.36314.6
Floating-point processing power1.004 TFLOPS10.07 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs32184
Tensor Coresno data368
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.06.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 January 2014 20 September 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 215 Watt

R7 Graphics has 1333.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 2080, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 Graphics and GeForce RTX 2080. We've got no test results to judge.


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