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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce GTX 1080

Radeon RX 5600 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Navi 10
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
GP104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB with 2304 shaders against the 3 years and 9 months older GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
6 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR5X
13.0
(Bad)
Value Index
20.7
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1080 over RX 5600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080
  • 24% higher maximum theoretical performance (8.9 vs 7.2 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 5600 XT
vs
GTX 1080

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
110
61
48
28
103
60
50
33
The Witcher 3
94
75
48
28
106
84
60
31
Counter-Strike 2
154
108
75
36
160
114
85
38
Far Cry 6
89
76
54
29
85
75
56
29
Hogwarts Legacy
56
44
34
15
58
48
32
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
67
43
28
71
62
43
27
Ghost of Tsushima
60
48
32
15
55
42
31
18
Cyberpunk 2077
57
49
25
12
56
53
31
14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
101
88
56
31
95
83
57
30
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 88 88
1080p Ultra 68 69
1440p Ultra 46 49
4K Ultra 25 26
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 5600 XT
6991
GTX 1080 +4%
7282
Time Spy 7631 7592
Solar Bay - 19994
Port Royal - 1676
Fire Strike 22323 22750
Wild Life Extreme 14672 15147
Night Raid 86634 82345
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5600 XT +4%
66629
GTX 1080
63994
Background Blur 123.2 img/sec 152.4 img/sec
Face Detection 71.4 img/sec 71.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.85 Gpixels/sec 2.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.1 Gpixels/sec 4.15 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.48 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.32 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 253.9 Gpixels/sec 238.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7670.6 FPS 6716.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 5600 XT
2988
GTX 1080 +30%
3895

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5600 XT
13378
GTX 1080 +17%
15609
G2D Mark 871 889
DirectX 11 95 FPS 125 FPS
DirectX 12 52 FPS 55 FPS
GPU Compute 6187 Ops/s 7627 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4772 & 42364 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 5600 XT +2%
618.14
GTX 1080
606.47
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 280 & 1005 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 5600 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)GeekBench70675
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Steel Nomad Light7074
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GeForce GTX 1080
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 5600 XT +34%
12529
GTX 1080
9341
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5600 XT +60%
14594
GTX 1080
9110
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5600 XT +38%
9434
GTX 1080
6830
Image Classification (SP) 5459 2591
Image Segmentation (HP) 6448 5497
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15013 11914
Face Detection (HP) 17318 9841
Pose Estimation (Q) 62592 53922
Text Classification (SP) 1533 1732
Machine Translation (HP) 3771 2662
Object Detection (SP) 5601 3255
Depth Estimation (Q) 22988 16431
Style Transfer (SP) 120386 112226
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce GTX 1080

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 21, 2020 May 27, 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Navi 10 GP104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT - GeForce RTX 5080
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9500 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (69th and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1130 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz 1733 MHz
Shading Units 2304 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 100 GPixel/s 111 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 225 GTexel/s 277 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5600 XT
7.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1080 +24%
8.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 150 W 180 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 16 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 7 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 22.29 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1251 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 10000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5600 XT
288 GB/s
GTX 1080 +11%
320.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
5 (71.4%)
2 (28.6%)
Total votes: 7

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