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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Radeon RX 5700 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Navi 10
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GP102

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB with 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 5 months older GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 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)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
11 GB GDDR5X
75.7
(Good)
Value Index
51.3
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1080 Ti over RX 5700 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Performs slightly better (up to 12%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 14% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 65 vs 57 FPS
  • 15% higher maximum theoretical performance (11.3 vs 9.8 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 3 GB more video memory
  • Has 40% more shading units (3584 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 5700 XT
vs
GTX 1080 Ti

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
131
73
57
35
119
76
65
42
The Witcher 3
113
94
66
36
134
110
81
42
Counter-Strike 2
185
128
91
47
199
146
106
51
Far Cry 6
102
86
64
36
102
90
72
38
Hogwarts Legacy
67
56
39
18
75
59
46
23
CoD: Modern Warfare III
90
85
55
35
91
79
56
39
Ghost of Tsushima
75
58
39
21
69
54
42
25
Cyberpunk 2077
69
62
33
15
77
70
42
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
121
107
72
35
118
109
78
40
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 106 109
1080p Ultra 83 88
1440p Ultra 57 65
4K Ultra 31 35
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 5700 XT
8566
GTX 1080 Ti +12%
9636
Time Spy 9421 9981
Solar Bay - 26263
Port Royal - 2266
Fire Strike 27551 29329
Wild Life Extreme 18403 20170
Night Raid 103057 95847
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5700 XT +9%
81739
GTX 1080 Ti
74966
Background Blur 148 img/sec 200.9 img/sec
Face Detection 89.5 img/sec 88.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.52 Gpixels/sec 3.55 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.98 Gpixels/sec 5.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.11 Gpixels/sec 5.79 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.75 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 295.8 Gpixels/sec 265.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10480.7 FPS 6315.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5700 XT
16032
GTX 1080 Ti +16%
18596
G2D Mark 920 941
DirectX 11 115 FPS 151 FPS
DirectX 12 63 FPS 66 FPS
GPU Compute 7516 Ops/s 9585 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 18342 & 32953 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 5700 XT +14%
976.85
GTX 1080 Ti
859.44
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 959 & 1200 samples
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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 5700 XT +18%
14920
GTX 1080 Ti
12690
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5700 XT +40%
16852
GTX 1080 Ti
12039
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5700 XT +37%
11883
GTX 1080 Ti
8644
Image Classification (SP) 6764 3882
Image Segmentation (HP) 7615 7960
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19081 14401
Face Detection (HP) 20621 13001
Pose Estimation (Q) 73667 72329
Text Classification (SP) 1970 1910
Machine Translation (HP) 2417 3577
Object Detection (SP) 6684 4757
Depth Estimation (Q) 30456 20303
Style Transfer (SP) 147087 164740
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5700 XT and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released July 7, 2019 March 10, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $699
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Navi 10 GP102
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3060 - Radeon RX 5700 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 - GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9600K or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (65th and 61st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1605 MHz 1481 MHz
Boost Clock 1905 MHz 1582 MHz
Shading Units 2560 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 224
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 88
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 28
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 2816KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 122 GPixel/s 139 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 305 GTexel/s 354 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5700 XT
9.8 TFLOPS
GTX 1080 Ti +15%
11.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 225 W 250 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 16 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 471 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 11 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 23.35 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Memory Size 8 GB 11 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1376 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 11000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 352-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5700 XT
448 GB/s
GTX 1080 Ti +8%
484.4 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

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