GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
512 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 81% (3130MHz vs 1733MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
8873
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
+188%
25640
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Jun 2025
GeForce 10
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
3130 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
20
SM Count
132
2560
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
528
-
RT Cores
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
256 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
2x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Navi 44
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT 8GB
Pascal
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
4 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
29.7 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
199 mm²
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
9.0
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
