XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (RDNA 1) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Pascal) and has 8 GB GDDR5X graphics memory with a bandwidth of 320 GB/s.

GPU

The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps has the Navi 10 XLE graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 1 architecture.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK is based on the graphics chip GP104-400-A1 / GP104-410-A1, which comes from the Pascal architecture.
XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK
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 graphics memory of the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps clocks at 1.500 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 12.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK is 10.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.251 GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5X
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.251 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 10.0 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.235 GHz Base Clock 1.607 GHz
1.620 GHz Boost Clock 1.771 GHz
1.56 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.76 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 160 W.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 180 W.

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

Cooler & Fans

The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK has 1 Axial (Radiator) main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial (Radiator)
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
28 dB Noise (Idle) dB
33 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

With the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK 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 can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

280 mm Length 270 mm
148 mm Height 111 mm
44 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1249 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q1/2020.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK came on the market in Q2/2016 and will have a structure width of 16 nanometers manufactured.

RX-56XT626D6 / RX-56XT6DFD6 Part-no --
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)

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)

XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro 12Gbps
6 GB GDDR6
117 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK
8 GB GDDR5X
108 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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