GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
vs
MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.58 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 11.34 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G has 5120 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.43 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 24.83 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 80 execution units.
GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition GPU MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
GP102-350-K1-A1 GPU Chip Navi 21
Pascal Architecture RDNA 2
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 80
3584 Shader 5120
88 Render Output Units 128
224 Texture Units 320
0 Raytracing Cores 80

Memory

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is equipped with a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.376 GHz clocks.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

11 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR6
1.376 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
11.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
484 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
352 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has a turbo clock of 1.582 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G is 2.425 GHz.

1.480 GHz Base Clock 1.925 GHz
1.582 GHz Boost Clock 2.425 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.24 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 91 °C.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G is equipped with a 3 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

250 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) 345 W
91 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 3 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 34 dB

Connectivity

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

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
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

281 mm Length 324 mm
124 mm Height 141 mm
42 mm Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1581 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition was released in Q1/2017.

The MSI Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio 16G published in Q2/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

80IUJ3MDXXNM Part-no --
Q1/2017 Release date Q2/2021
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 999 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 7 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)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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