AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
213
142
118
87
118
73
62
42
The Witcher 3
208
183
139
72
131
108
80
43
Counter-Strike 2
302
208
149
81
198
143
105
53
Far Cry 6
172
148
133
83
103
89
73
38
Hogwarts Legacy
130
105
83
46
74
63
45
24
COD Modern Warfare 3
183
177
130
84
89
82
55
38
Ghost of Tsushima
131
111
91
55
72
55
39
22
Cyberpunk 2077
148
129
87
42
76
68
40
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
225
205
156
82
119
112
79
41
Avg FPS
1080p High190109
1080p Ultra15688
1440p Ultra12164
4K Ultra7036
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
20263
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
9689
Time Spy207819983
Solar Bay8674125927
Port Royal105192255
Fire Strike5732329332
Night Raid15975995126
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
124121
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
74966
Background Blur231.6 frames/s200.9 frames/s
Face Detection152.5 frames/s88.6 frames/s
Horizon Detection4.26 Gpix/sec3.55 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection5.75 Gpix/sec5.57 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur5.87 Gpix/sec5.79 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.12 Gpix/sec0.33 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching618.7 Gpix/sec265.6 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics17973.9 fps6315.6 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
26727
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
18592
G2D Mark1051937
DirectX 11278 fps151 fps
DirectX 12113 fps65 fps
GPU Compute14962 Ops/s9701 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
305.2 fps
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
118.7 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)1379.6 fps583.6 fps
Car Chase1317.5 fps533.8 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)1205.3 fps507.1 fps
T-Rex4360 fps2784.7 fps
ALU 26645 fps7894.6 fps
Driver Overhead 2325.2 fps273.3 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation3954.83894.3

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced December, 8, 2020 March, 10, 2017
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
Codename Navi 21 GP102
Price 999 699

GPU

GPU Frequency 1825 MHz 1481 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2250 MHz 1582 MHz
Shader Units 5120 3584
TMUs 320 224
ROPs 128 88
Execution Units n/a 28
Ray Tracing Cores 80 No
Tensor Cores n/a No
L1 cache 128 KB/core 48 KB/core
L2 cache 4000 KB/core 2816 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 288 Gpix/sec 139 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 720 GTex/s 354 GTex/s
FLOPS 23 TFLOPS 11.3 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 300 W 250 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 7 nm 16 nm
Transistor Size 520 mm² 471 mm²
Transistor count 26 billion 11 billion
Transistor density 50 MTr/mm² 23.35 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR5X
Memory Frequency 2000 MHz 1376 MHz
Bus 256 bit 352 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 16000 MB/s 11000 MB/s
Memory Size 16 GB 11 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
512 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
484.4 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 6.1
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT the clear winner in this comparison.

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