MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT has 4608 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.25 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 20.74 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.75 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 12.52 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 72 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Navi 21 XT GPU Chip GP102-350-K1-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Pascal
72 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
4608 Shader 3584
128 Render Output Units 88
288 Texture Units 224
72 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G has a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.431GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 11 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5X
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.431 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 11.4 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 528 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT has a turbo clock of 2.250 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is 1.746 GHz.

1.825 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
2.250 GHz Boost Clock 1.746 GHz
2.02 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.72 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 91 °C.

300 W TDP 280 W
345 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 3 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
37 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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 / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT is 50 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is 50 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 293 mm
120 mm Height 142 mm
50 mm Width 55 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
1520 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT was released in Q4/2020.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G published in Q1/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no GV-N108TAORUS X-11GD
Q4/2020 Release date Q1/2017
799 $ Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 16 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)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
9462

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
3527

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)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
59 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
68 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
102 fps (avg)

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)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
32 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
64 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
112 fps (avg)

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)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
180 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
11 GB GDDR5X
115 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
200 fps (avg)
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 11G
11 GB GDDR5X
161 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

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT
16 GB GDDR6
195225

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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