AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.64 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.79 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.73 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Navi 23 KXT GPU Chip GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Pascal
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 20
2048 Shader 2560
64 Render Output Units 64
128 Texture Units 160
32 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.190 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5X
2.190 GHz Memory Clock 1.251 GHz
17.5 Gbps Memory Speed 10.0 Gbps
280 GB/s Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has a turbo clock of 2.635 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 1.733 GHz.

2.055 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
2.635 GHz Boost Clock 1.733 GHz
2.41 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

180 W TDP 180 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
-- Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.1 HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 267 mm
-- Height 111 mm
-- Width 38 mm
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT was released in Q2/2022.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2022 Release date Q2/2016
399 $ Launch Price 599 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
4562
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
3319

Port Royal (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
4673
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
1589

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
1637

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
37 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
59 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
32 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
72 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
54 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
40 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
110 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
75 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
156 fps (avg)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
106 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
85142
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
53292

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
92863
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
63883

Geekbench 6 - Metal

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
116428

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT
8 GB GDDR6
10.79
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
8 GB GDDR5X
8.87

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