MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G
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ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G has 4608 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.29 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 21.06 TFLOPS.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.94 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.91 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 72 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G GPU ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Navi 21 XT GPU Chip GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Pascal
72 Streaming Multiprocessors 20
4608 Shader 2560
128 Render Output Units 64
288 Texture Units 160
72 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

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

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition has a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.251GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5X
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.251 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 10.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G has a turbo clock of 2.285 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition is 1.936 GHz.

1.850 GHz Base Clock 1.759 GHz
2.285 GHz Boost Clock 1.936 GHz
2.05 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.90 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G 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 ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

300 W TDP 180 W
345 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
35 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition 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 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio 16G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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 Gaming X Trio 16G is 55 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition is 55 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

324 mm Length 298 mm
141 mm Height 134 mm
55 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1551 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 Gaming X Trio 16G was released in Q4/2020.

The ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 OC edition published in Q2/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no ROG-STRIX-GTX1080-O8G-GAMING
Q4/2020 Release date Q2/2016
849 $ Launch Price 599 $ (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)

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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