NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 365.00
$ 264.99 significantly less expensive
$ 629.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
14121 points
187% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
286 FPS
192 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
208 FPS
129 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
257 FPS
194 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
122 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1080 and the Radeon RX 6900 XT? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
85% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
4065 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
2478.22 points
308% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points
159528 points
569% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points
170008 points
211% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points
114610 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points
208130 points
773% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
167644 points
178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
171121 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz
1825 MHz
13% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
2250 MHz
29% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
16 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
512 GB/s
59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
66% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
288 Gigapixels/s
159% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
720 Gigatexels/s
159% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
159% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
5120
100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
320
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
128
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
24th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2020 August

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 6900 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

The Radeon RX 6900 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 6900 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6900 XT has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 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 Radeon RX 6900 XT over the GeForce GTX 1080.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular GPU Comparisons