NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon VII

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

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 365.00

$ 580.00 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points

6138 points

25% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

94 FPS

107 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS

100 FPS

22 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS

106 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

56 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points

9129 points

20% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points

817.47 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

68286 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points

86533 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points

77122 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points

77386 points

224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points

92086 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points

91729 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1607 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1733 MHz

1750 MHz

0.98% 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

4096 Bit

1500% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

1024 GB/s

219% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W

66% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

55% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

8.87 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

55% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

3840

49% 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

HBM2

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 VII benchmarks

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

The GeForce GTX 1080 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. Despite this, the Radeon VII 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 VII has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a significantly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 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 VII is better than the GeForce GTX 1080.