GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 2060 (27/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 33)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 25)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 33.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 25.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 19777 75605
Night Raid 85132 199650
Port Royal 4133 23275
Solar Bay 34157 161489
Time Spy 7564 33000
Wild Life Extreme 15551 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 86 239
1080p Ultra 69 205
1440p Ultra 50 165
4K Ultra 28 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 69594430 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 1571178241 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 58523213 21319213861
Far Cry 6 84745729 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 99624935 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 53423018 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 59473315 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 92855833 306276214111
The Witcher 3 107866234 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 20909 69068
Face Detection (HP) 24511 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 5453 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 12449 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11020 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 3360 7905
Object Detection (SP) 6343 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 47746 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 101870 349205
Text Classification (SP) 2000 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 144.4 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 4.25 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 75.2 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.93 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.21 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 3.08 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8559.4 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 354.4 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU106 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9600Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released January 15, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 —
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1365 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1680 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 30 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 30 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 112
Shading Units 1920 10752
Tensor Cores 240 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 120 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 112 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 53 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 743 1397
GPU Compute 5427 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 445 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 160 W 360 W
Transistor Count 10 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 22.47 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 81 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 202 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-15(MrRayeen) GeekBench —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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