NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega, 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
$ 134.95 significantly less expensive
$ 499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
4% slightly better overall score
4692 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
90 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
78 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
89 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
42 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
770.19 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points
77618 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points
70183 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
77896 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
78175 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
109th of 586

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
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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 Vega comparison

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

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

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