NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 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
$ 244.69 significantly less expensive
$ 609.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
14149 points
188% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
291 FPS
198 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
217 FPS
138 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
278 FPS
216 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
134 FPS
70 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
6282 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
2743.15 points
351% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
135343 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
167848 points
157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz
2520 MHz
45% significantly 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
640 GB/s
99% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
322.6 Gigapixels/s
190% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS
36.1 TFLOPS
306% significantly better floating point performance

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
23rd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 9070 beats the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 9070 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 is better than the GeForce GTX 1080.

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