NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

4905 points

4979 points

1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

104 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

78 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

87 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

43 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

11742 points

55% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1392.24 points

129% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

93784 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

55272 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

113721 points

377% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

87678 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

97983 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

2300 MHz

43% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2581 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

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

384 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

145 W

24% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

165.2 Gigapixels/s

48% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

368 Gigatexels/s

32% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

11.78 TFLOPS

32% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

Identical

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

Identical

160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

102nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

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 vs Radeon RX 6800M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6800M beats the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, 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. 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 6800M has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon RX 6800M has a slightly lower TDP at 145 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6800M is better than the GeForce GTX 1080.