NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
vs
XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 8.87 TFLOPS.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.61 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.68 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 20 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1 GPU Chip Navi 23 XT
Pascal Architecture RDNA 2
20 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
2560 Shader 2048
64 Render Output Units 64
160 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 32

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.251 GHz clocks.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR6
1.251 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
10.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
320 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is 2.607 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 2.188 GHz
1.733 GHz Boost Clock 2.607 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.43 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

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 XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

180 W TDP 160 W
-- TDP (up) --
94 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 3 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

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 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 is 38 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming is 38 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 274 mm
111 mm Height 114 mm
38 mm Width 50 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 was released in Q2/2016.

The XFX Speedster MERC308 Radeon RX 6600 XT BLACK Gaming published in Q3/2021 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

-- Part-no RX-66XT8TBDQ
Q2/2016 Release date Q3/2021
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 379 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 7 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.

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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