Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT
vs
Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT and the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, which has 2560 shaders and 20 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Navi 10 XLE GPU Chip GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Pascal
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 20
2304 Shader 2560
64 Render Output Units 64
144 Texture Units 160
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH can access 8 GB GDDR5X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5X
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.251 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 10.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT clocks in the base with up to 1.130 GHz. The base frequency of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH is 1.746 GHz.

1.130 GHz Base Clock 1.746 GHz
1.750 GHz Boost Clock 1.885 GHz
1.62 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT is 160 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH has a TDP of 180 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

160 W TDP 180 W
195 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH has 2 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
34 dB Noise (Idle) dB
38 dB Noise (Load) --

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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT is 254 mm long, 135 mm high and 47 mm wide.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH is 285 mm long, 133 mm high and -- wide.

254 mm Length 285 mm
135 mm Height 133 mm
47 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT was released in Q1/2020 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH was introduced in Q2/2016 at a price of 599 $ (Reference).

11296-01-20G Part-no 426018336-3668
Q1/2020 Release date Q2/2016
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 599 $ (Reference)
7 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

Port Royal (Raytracing)

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)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT
6 GB GDDR6
31 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT
6 GB GDDR6
58 fps (avg)

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)

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT
6 GB GDDR6
127 fps (avg)
Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH Gainward GeForce GTX 1080 Phoenix GLH
8 GB GDDR5X
115 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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