EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED and the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and has 2560 texture shaders and 20 execution units.

PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is based on AMD RX Vega 56, which has 3584 shaders and 56 execution units.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED GPU PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on AMD RX Vega 56
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
2560 Shader 3584
64 Render Output Units 64
160 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil can access 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type HBM2
1.251 GHz Memory Clock 0.800 GHz
10.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.6 Gbps
320 GB/s Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED clocks in the base with up to 1.708 GHz. The base frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 1.308 GHz.

1.708 GHz Base Clock 1.308 GHz
1.847 GHz Boost Clock 1.526 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED is 180 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil has a TDP of 210 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

180 W TDP 210 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 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 EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version --
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting 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 VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED is 267 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil is 316 mm long, 150 mm high and 55 mm wide.

267 mm Length 316 mm
111 mm Height 150 mm
-- Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX+LED was released in Q2/2016 at a price of 599 $ (Reference).

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Red Devil was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

08G-P4-6181-KR Part-no AXRX VEGA 56 8GBHBM2-2D2HD/OC
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2017
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 14 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

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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

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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