NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon Vega 3

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 3, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

4318% significantly better overall score

111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

91 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

63 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

1722% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

414 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

1337% significantly higher Blender score

42.23 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

1142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4396 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

1254% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4915 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

388% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4880 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

1415% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3968 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

1022% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5804 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

435% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

57% significantly higher boost clock speed

1100 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

15 W

1100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

2420% significantly higher pixel rate

4.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

2000% significantly higher texture rate

13.2 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

1233% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

1233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

499th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

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 Vega 3 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 3 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly 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 GeForce GTX 1080 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 3 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the Radeon Vega 3.