NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (2310MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 352.3GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +166%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1860 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

80

2560

Shading Units

5120

160

TMUs

320

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

80

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Navi 21

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

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

335W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

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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