NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M 12 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

6249 points

21% slightly better overall score

5127 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

23 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

107 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

80 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

91 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

44 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

11742 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

1392.24 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61295 points

93784 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85662 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

55272 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

113721 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

87678 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

97983 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

2300 MHz

55% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

2581 MHz

63% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

12 GiB

9% slightly more memory

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

26% slightly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

145 W

72% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

18% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

368 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

11.78 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

40% slightly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

40% slightly more texture mapping units

160

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

78th of 598

100th of 598

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2021 May

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 6800M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 6800M in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6800M has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6800M 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6800M has slightly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 11 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6800M has a significantly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti over the Radeon RX 6800M.