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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Radeon RX 6500 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Navi 24
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GP102

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB with 1024 shaders against the 4 years and 11 months older GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
4 GB GDDR6
VS
11 GB GDDR5X
22.7
(Mediocre)
Value Index
51.3
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1080 Ti over RX 6500 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6500 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 65 vs 30 FPS
  • 95% higher maximum theoretical performance (11.3 vs 5.8 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 7 GB more video memory
  • Has 3.4x higher memory bandwidth: 484.4 vs 143.9 GB/s
  • Has 3.5x more shading units (3584 vs 1024)
  • Achieves 41% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (74K vs 53K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 6500 XT
vs
GTX 1080 Ti

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
84
46
33
22
119
76
65
42
The Witcher 3
60
50
28
14
134
110
81
42
Counter-Strike 2
95
67
44
18
199
146
106
51
Far Cry 6
64
54
40
16
102
90
72
38
Hogwarts Legacy
36
28
21
12
75
59
46
23
CoD: Modern Warfare III
54
42
33
18
91
79
56
39
Ghost of Tsushima
39
29
21
10
69
54
42
25
Cyberpunk 2077
36
30
18
-
77
70
42
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
70
61
36
19
118
109
78
40
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 60 109
1080p Ultra 45 88
1440p Ultra 30 65
4K Ultra 15 35
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 6500 XT
4763
GTX 1080 Ti +102%
9636
Time Spy 4942 9981
Solar Bay 20010 26263
Port Royal 368 2266
Fire Strike 15575 29329
Wild Life Extreme 8990 20170
Night Raid 65355 95847
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 6500 XT
53081
GTX 1080 Ti +41%
74966
Background Blur 130.3 img/sec 200.9 img/sec
Face Detection 70.1 img/sec 88.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.59 Gpixels/sec 3.55 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 2.21 Gpixels/sec 5.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 2.02 Gpixels/sec 5.79 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.65 Gpixels/sec 0.33 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 223 Gpixels/sec 265.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7470.5 FPS 6315.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 6500 XT
2030
GTX 1080 Ti +166%
5393

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 6500 XT
9617
GTX 1080 Ti +93%
18596
G2D Mark 817 941
DirectX 11 90 FPS 151 FPS
DirectX 12 38 FPS 66 FPS
GPU Compute 4296 Ops/s 9585 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3351 & 32953 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 6500 XT
424.41
GTX 1080 Ti +103%
859.44
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 119 & 1200 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 6500 XT
10359
GTX 1080 Ti +23%
12690
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 6500 XT +7%
12861
GTX 1080 Ti
12039
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 6500 XT
7842
GTX 1080 Ti +10%
8644
Image Classification (SP) 3867 3882
Image Segmentation (HP) 5136 7960
Image Super Resolution (Q) 11758 14401
Face Detection (HP) 14844 13001
Pose Estimation (Q) 42787 72329
Text Classification (SP) 1986 1910
Machine Translation (HP) 2665 3577
Object Detection (SP) 4251 4757
Depth Estimation (Q) 19707 20303
Style Transfer (SP) 101802 164740
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 19, 2022 March 10, 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $199 $699
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
GPU Codename Navi 24 GP102
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 3050 - Radeon RX 5700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 12400 or above - Intel Core i7 7700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (79th and 61st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2310 MHz 1481 MHz
Boost Clock 2815 MHz 1582 MHz
Shading Units 1024 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 64 224
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 88
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 28
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores 16 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1024KB shared 2816KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 90 GPixel/s 139 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 180 GTexel/s 354 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 6500 XT
5.8 TFLOPS
GTX 1080 Ti +95%
11.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 107 W 250 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 16 nm
Die Size 107 mm² 471 mm²
Transistor Count 5 billion 11 billion
Transistor Density 46.73 MTr/mm² 23.35 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5X
Memory Size 4 GB 11 GB
Memory Clock 2248 MHz 1376 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 11000 Mbps
Bus 64-bit 352-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 6500 XT
143.9 GB/s
GTX 1080 Ti +237%
484.4 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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