MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G
vs
ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU)


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G and the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU), we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and has 2560 texture shaders and 20 execution units.

ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) is based on AMD Radeon RX 560 (14 CU), which has 896 shaders and 14 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G GPU ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on AMD Radeon RX 560 (14 CU)
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 21 XL
Pascal Architecture GCN 4
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 14
2560 Shader 896
64 Render Output Units 16
160 Texture Units 56
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 323 GB/s.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR5
1.264 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
10.1 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
323 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.607 GHz. The base frequency of the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) is 1.176 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.176 GHz
1.847 GHz Boost Clock 1.223 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G is 180 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) has a TDP of 45 W and is supplied with the required energy via PCIe power connectors.

180 W TDP 45 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 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 MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) is 5120x2880 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 5120x2880
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
MSI Mystic Light 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

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G is 279 mm long, 140 mm high and 42 mm wide.

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) is 170 mm long, 131 mm high and 42 mm wide.

279 mm Length 170 mm
140 mm Height 131 mm
42 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1100 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 8

Additional data

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G was released in Q2/2016 at a price of 599 $ (Reference).

The ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 560 4G (14 CU) was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 99 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no PHANTOM-G-R-RX560-4G
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2017
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 99 $ (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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