AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB, 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

5396 points

59% significantly better overall score

3375 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

55 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

46 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

42 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5999 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

75% significantly higher Blender score

558.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46870 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

58341 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

49707 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

58341 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1468 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

1468 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

110 W

104% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

93.95 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

234.9 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

7.52 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

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

141st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 5700 XT beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5700 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 5700 XT also 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 110 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is better than the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.