NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 20GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900 XT 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 300W)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2394MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (800.0GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900 XT +480%

51.48 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

Radeon RX 7900 XT +254%

26668

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Radeon RX 7900 XT +218%

102

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Radeon RX 7900 XT +230%

205

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Radeon RX 7900 XT +202%

299

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

Radeon RX 7900 XT +203%

170

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

Radeon RX 7900 XT +129%

170

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

154

Radeon RX 7900 XT +23%

190

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX 7900 XT

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Nov 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1387 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

2394 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

20GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

800.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

84

2560

Shading Units

5376

160

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

459.6 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

804.4 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

103.0 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

51.48 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.609 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 31

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 31 XT (215-145000156)

Pascal

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

5 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

57.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 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

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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