NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 297.99 significantly less expensive

$ 662.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

15475 points

215% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

326 FPS

232 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

216 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

295 FPS

233 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

127 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4154 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

2429.25 points

300% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

142590 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

157875 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

1800 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

2430 MHz

40% 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

624 GB/s

94% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

46% significantly lower TDP

263 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

233 Gigapixels/s

110% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

583 Gigatexels/s

110% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

36.04 TFLOPS

306% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

8192

220% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

240

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

17th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 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 7800 XT comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 in our tests.

The Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 7800 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 7800 XT at 263 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 7800 XT over the GeForce GTX 1080.