MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO
vs
Sapphire Radeon VII


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO has 9728 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.61 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 50.78 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Radeon VII has 3840 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.75 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 13.07 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ada Lovelace architecture, which has 76 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Radeon VII is based on the GCN 5.1 architecture and is equipped with 60 execution units.
MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO GPU Sapphire Radeon VII
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Based on AMD Radeon VII
AD103-300-A1 GPU Chip Vega 20 XT
Ada Lovelace Architecture GCN 5.1
76 Streaming Multiprocessors 60
9728 Shader 3840
112 Render Output Units 64
304 Texture Units 240
76 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.400 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Radeon VII has a 16 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.000GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type HBM2
1.400 GHz Memory Clock 1.000 GHz
22.4 Gbps Memory Speed 2.0 Gbps
736 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 4096 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO has a turbo clock of 2.610 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Radeon VII is 1.750 GHz.

2.205 GHz Base Clock 1.400 GHz
2.610 GHz Boost Clock 1.750 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO has 1 x 16-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The Sapphire Radeon VII is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 99 °C.

320 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 99 °C
1 x 16-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Radeon VII is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 75 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 32 dB
-- Noise (Load) 52 dB

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The Sapphire Radeon VII supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The Sapphire Radeon VII supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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 VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO is 67 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Radeon VII is 67 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

337 mm Length 268 mm
140 mm Height 120 mm
67 mm Width 42 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1876 g Weight 1280 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO was released in Q4/2022.

The Sapphire Radeon VII published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

-- Part-no 21291-01-40G
Q4/2022 Release date Q1/2019
1,199 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
5 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)

MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO
16 GB GDDR6X
146 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
65 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO
16 GB GDDR6X
208 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
116 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO MSI GeForce RTX 4080 16GB GAMING X TRIO
16 GB GDDR6X
208 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire Radeon VII
16 GB HBM2
150 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

Sapphire Radeon VII Sapphire 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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