MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G
vs
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G and the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is based on the AMD RX Vega 56 and has 3584 texture shaders and 56 execution units.

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, which has 3584 shaders and 28 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G GPU ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm
AMD RX Vega 56 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Vega 10 XL GPU Chip GP102-350-K1-A1
GCN 5 Architecture Pascal
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
3584 Shader 3584
64 Render Output Units 88
256 Texture Units 224
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type HBM2 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm can access 11 GB GDDR5X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 11 GB
HBM2 Memory Type GDDR5X
0.800 GHz Memory Clock 1.376 GHz
1.6 Gbps Memory Speed 11.0 Gbps
410 GB/s Memory bandwidth 484 GB/s
2048 bit Memory Interface 352 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.156 GHz. The base frequency of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm is 1.506 GHz.

1.156 GHz Base Clock 1.506 GHz
1.471 GHz Boost Clock 1.620 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 210 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm has a TDP of 250 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

210 W TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 91 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G has a total of 1 Radial fans.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm has 0 -- fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type --
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Water cooling
37 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
49 dB Noise (Load) 0 dB

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 Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting 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 / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 270 mm long, 110 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm is 300 mm long, 148 mm high and 44 mm wide.

270 mm Length 300 mm
110 mm Height 148 mm
40 mm Width 44 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
1068 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G was released in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm was introduced in Q2/2017 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no ZT-P10810E-30P
Q3/2017 Release date Q2/2017
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
14 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

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)

MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G
8 GB HBM2
112 fps (avg)
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm
11 GB GDDR5X
149 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

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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