AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 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

$ 699.99
$ 260.30 significantly less expensive
$ 960.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

55 %
14% slightly better overall score
48 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS
19 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
92 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS
4 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
79 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
62 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
64 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9625
27% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
7547
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

673.89
9% slightly higher Blender score
613.31
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311
186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
23824
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
54640
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806
66552
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

90259
278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
23824
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

77302
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
46368
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

88142
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
65421

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz
1607 MHz
0.12% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz
9% slightly higher boost clock speed
1733 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB
Identical
8 GiB

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

448 GB/s
39% slightly higher memory bandwidth
320.3 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W
180 W
25% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s
9% slightly higher pixel rate
110.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate
277.3 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS
9% slightly better floating point performance
8.87 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
Identical
2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
Identical
160

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
Identical
64

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 549
45th of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon 5700 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019
May 2016

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1080 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming.

In our comparison, 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 RX 5700 XT 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, they both have the same amount of memory at 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 slightly lower TDP at 180 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 1080.

Comments

Anonymous

Good info I was going to get a 1080 but then I saw a 5700xt that I liked better for a theme look as well as performance and newer sorry Nvidia still love you guys but going team red for gpu

September 18, 2022 Reply
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