PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC
vs
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.62 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 11.61 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.55 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 11.11 TFLOPS.

GPU

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.
PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC GPU Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Based on AMD RX Vega 56
GP102-350-K1-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
Pascal Architecture GCN 5
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
3584 Shader 3584
88 Render Output Units 64
224 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC is equipped with a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.376 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

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

Clock Speeds

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC has a turbo clock of 1.620 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is 1.550 GHz.

1.506 GHz Base Clock 1.266 GHz
1.620 GHz Boost Clock 1.550 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 91 °C.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

250 W TDP 325 W
-- TDP (up) --
91 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 2 x 92 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 80 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version --
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 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 VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

267 mm Length 310 mm
112 mm Height 133 mm
42 mm Width 54 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Blower Gaming OC was released in Q1/2017.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 56 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

VCGGTX1080T11PB-OC2 Part-no 11276-01-40G
Q1/2017 Release date Q3/2017
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
16 nm Structure size 14 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)

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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