NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 395.99

$ 3.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

44% significantly better overall score

4311 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

89 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

64 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

78 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

7692 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

619.96 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

56432 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

57968 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48131 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

80618 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

65528 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

77765 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

83% significantly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

83% significantly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

44% significantly higher memory bandwidth

336 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

150 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

39% slightly higher pixel rate

99.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

57% significantly higher texture rate

224.64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

57% significantly better floating point performance

7.19 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

55% significantly more shading units

2304

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

55% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

37% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

116th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon RX 5600 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has significantly more memory with 11 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 5600 XT has a significantly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the Radeon RX 5600 XT.