NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

11% slightly better overall score

3023 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

61 FPS

64 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

46 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

56 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

26 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4965 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

422.78 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

52512 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

39991 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

50916 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

59288 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

2310 MHz

57% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

2815 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

122% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

107 W

2% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

90.1 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

180.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

5.77 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

150% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

154th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6500 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6500 XT has a slightly lower TDP at 107 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q at 110 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q is better than the Radeon RX 6500 XT.