MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
vs
Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.52 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.89 TFLOPS.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.58 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 11.34 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 5 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC GPU Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower
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 OC is equipped with a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory, which is equipped with 0.800 GHz clocks.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower has a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.376GHz.

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 OC has a turbo clock of 1.520 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower is 1.582 GHz.

1.181 GHz Base Clock 1.480 GHz
1.520 GHz Boost Clock 1.582 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC 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 Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower 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.

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 graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Radial
1 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 70 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
37 dB Noise (Idle) dB
49 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version --.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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 --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

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
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

270 mm Length 267 mm
110 mm Height 111 mm
40 mm Width 38 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

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC was released in Q3/2017.

The Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no NEB108T019LCB
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2017
399 $ (Reference) Launch Price 699 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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)

MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
8 GB HBM2
83 fps (avg)
Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower
11 GB GDDR5X
104 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G OC
8 GB HBM2
116 fps (avg)
Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower
11 GB GDDR5X
146 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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