The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 40 execution units.
Memory
Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Memory Size
8 GB
12 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR6
Memory Clock
1.251 GHz
2.000 GHz
Memory Speed
10.0 Gbps
16.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
384 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
192 bit
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT has a 12 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Base Clock
1.607 GHz
2.321 GHz
Boost Clock
1.733 GHz
2.581 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
--
2.42 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is 2.581 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
TDP
180 W
230 W
Tjunction max
94 °C
100 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 94 °C.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 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 100 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Fan-Type
Radial
Axial
Fan 1
1 x 70 mm
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Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.1
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.4a
DVI
1
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode / Encode
VP9
Decode
Decode / Encode
AV1
No
Decode
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Length
267 mm
--
Height
111 mm
--
Width
38 mm
--
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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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.
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.
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.
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