ASUS Radeon VII
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Radeon VII and the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Radeon VII is based on the AMD Radeon VII and has 3840 texture shaders and 60 execution units.

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, which has 2560 shaders and 20 execution units.
ASUS Radeon VII GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
AMD Radeon VII Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Vega 20 XT GPU Chip GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1
GCN 5.1 Architecture Pascal
60 Streaming Multiprocessors 20
3840 Shader 2560
64 Render Output Units 64
240 Texture Units 160
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Radeon VII has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM2 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 1024 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition can access 8 GB GDDR5X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 8 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR5X
1.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.251 GHz
2.0 Gbps Memory Speed 10.0 Gbps
1024 GB/s Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
4096 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Radeon VII clocks in the base with up to 1.400 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 1.607 GHz.

1.400 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.750 GHz Boost Clock 1.733 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Radeon VII is 300 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has a TDP of 180 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

300 W TDP 180 W
-- TDP (up) --
99 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Radeon VII has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 75 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
32 dB Noise (Idle) dB
52 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS Radeon VII.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b 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 ASUS Radeon VII supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Non addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The ASUS Radeon VII is 268 mm long, 120 mm high and 42 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition is 269 mm long, 111 mm high and 40 mm wide.

268 mm Length 269 mm
120 mm Height 111 mm
42 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1100 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS Radeon VII was released in Q1/2019 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition was introduced in Q2/2016 at a price of 599 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no --
Q1/2019 Release date Q2/2016
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 599 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 16 nm
-- 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

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)

ASUS Radeon VII ASUS Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
65 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
8 GB GDDR5X
40 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

ASUS Radeon VII ASUS Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
116 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
8 GB GDDR5X
75 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

ASUS Radeon VII ASUS Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
150 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition
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

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

ASUS Radeon VII ASUS Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
76267

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)

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