AMD Radeon RX 6400 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6400 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6400

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6400

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1923 MHz vs 1607 MHz
Around 34% higher boost clock speed: 2321 MHz vs 1733 MHz
401.7x more texture fill rate: 111.4 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 16 nm
3.4x lower typical power consumption: 53 Watt vs 180 Watt
200x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s

Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 27 May 2016
Core clock speed	1923 MHz vs 1607 MHz
Boost clock speed	2321 MHz vs 1733 MHz
Texture fill rate	111.4 GTexel/s vs 277.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 16 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	53 Watt vs 180 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective vs 10 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

3.3x more pipelines: 2560 vs 768
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 887 vs 717
2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15578 vs 7651
8.9x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1560 vs 176
Around 68% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 55548 vs 33004

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2560 vs 768
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	887 vs 717
PassMark - G3D Mark	15578 vs 7651
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1560 vs 176
Geekbench - OpenCL	55548 vs 33004

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6400
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

717

887

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

7651

15578

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

176

1560

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

33004

55548

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6400	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
PassMark - G2D Mark	717	887
PassMark - G3D Mark	7651	15578
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	176	1560
Geekbench - OpenCL	33004	55548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		150.103
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2036.763
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		14.035
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		27.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		819.934
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3343
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3343

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6400	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Desktop)
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Pascal
Code name	Navi 24	GP104
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	27 May 2016
Place in performance rating	279	281
Launch price (MSRP)		$599
Price now		$439.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		43.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2321 MHz	1733 MHz
Compute units	12
Core clock speed	1923 MHz	1607 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	222.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.130 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.565 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	2560
Pixel fill rate	74.27 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	111.4 GTexel/s	277.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	53 Watt	180 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	7,200 million
CUDA cores		2560
Floating-point performance		8,873 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		94 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		10.5" (26.7 cm)
Width		2-slot
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB/s	320 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective	10 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Ansel
CUDA
GPU Boost
Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
ShadowWorks
SLI
Virtual Reality
VR Ready