NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5600

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 199.98

$ 165.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

37% slightly better overall score

3570 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

77 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

56 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

69 FPS

7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

410% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1479 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

609.00 points

0.33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48650 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37453 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

76653 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

62239 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

1130 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

6 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

150 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

11% slightly higher pixel rate

99.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

38% slightly higher texture rate

199.68 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

38% slightly better floating point performance

6.39 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

25% slightly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

25% slightly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

135th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs Radeon RX 5600 specs and performance

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

The GeForce GTX 1080 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 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 slightly more memory with 8 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 150 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 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 over the Radeon RX 5600.