NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 384.99 significantly less expensive

$ 749.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

14445 points

194% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

292 FPS

199 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

213 FPS

134 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

260 FPS

198 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

124 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

78% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4221 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2747.99 points

352% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

224476 points

842% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

176249 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

177326 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

1890 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2310 MHz

33% 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

576 GB/s

79% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

86% significantly lower TDP

335 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

295.7 Gigapixels/s

166% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

739.2 Gigatexels/s

166% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

166% 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

128

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

20th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2022 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 6950 XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 6950 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 6950 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 6950 XT at 335 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 6950 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1080.