NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 365.00
$ 200.88
$ 164.12 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
14% slightly better overall score
4302 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
86 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
65 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
78 FPS
15 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
8131 points
7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
969.87 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points
75685 points
217% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points
76157 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
61842 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points
100044 points
319% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
73158 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
86589 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
1626 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
2491 MHz
43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 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
42% significantly higher memory bandwidth
224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
132 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
159.4 Gigapixels/s
43% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
279 Gigatexels/s
0.61% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
8.93 TFLOPS
0.64% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
42% many more shading units
1792

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
42% many more texture mapping units
112

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
117th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2021 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 6600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the Radeon RX 6600 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6600 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 Radeon RX 6600 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 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 Radeon RX 6600 has a slightly lower TDP at 132 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 6600.

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