NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX 6800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (2105MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800 +82%

16.17 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

Radeon RX 6800 +116%

16287

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Radeon RX 6800 +103%

65

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Radeon RX 6800 +88%

117

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Radeon RX 6800 +69%

168

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Radeon RX 6800 +75%

91

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

97

Radeon RX 6800 +83%

178

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

Radeon RX 6800 +51%

194

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

Radeon RX 6800 +75%

98

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

Radeon RX 6800 +70%

126

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

Radeon RX 6800 +10%

170

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX 6800

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1700 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

2105 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

2560

Shading Units

3840

160

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

202.1 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

505.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

32.33 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.17 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1010 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 XL (215-121000187)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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