NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 149.39

$ 215.61 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

494% significantly better overall score

825 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

75 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

67 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

311% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

366% significantly higher Blender score

130.09 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

21032 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

241% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19493 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

23476 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

20226 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23100 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1175 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

35% slightly higher boost clock speed

1275 MHz

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

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

185% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

80 W

125% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

443% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

239% significantly higher texture rate

81.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

239% significantly better floating point performance

2.61 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

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 560 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 560 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1080 has a slightly 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 GeForce GTX 1080 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 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 560 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 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 over the Radeon RX 560.