NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 399.00

$ 350.99 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6249 points

14445 points

131% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

129 FPS

292 FPS

163 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

104 FPS

213 FPS

109 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

82 FPS

260 FPS

179 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

83 FPS

124 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9899 points

134% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

861.25 points

2747.99 points

219% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

30624 points

224476 points

633% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

68849 points

176249 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

85261 points

177326 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

1890 MHz

27% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1582 MHz

2310 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

11 GiB

16 GiB

45% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

352 Bit

37% slightly larger memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

484.4 GB/s

576 GB/s

18% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

250 W

34% slightly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

139.2 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

112% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

354.4 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

108% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

11.34 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

108% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

5120

42% many more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

320

42% many more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

45% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 March

2022 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 6950 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 11 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 250 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6950 XT at 335 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 Radeon RX 6950 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.