Radeon RX 6600 XT vs GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Radeon RX 6600 XT
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Jul 2021
Radeon RX 6600 XT
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 20 Apr 2017
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 6600 XT

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Infinity Cache allows to deliver up to 3.25x the effective memory bandwidth
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 6600 XTGeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU NameNavi 23 (Navi 23 XT (215-130000006))vsGP104 (GP104-410-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs16 nm
Die Size237 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors11,060 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders2048vs2560
Raytracing Cores32vsnone
Compute Units32vs20
Core clock1968 MHzvs1607 MHz
ROPs64vs64
TMUs128vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 6600 XTGeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5X
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
vs1376 MHz
11008 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 6600 XTGeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
TDP160 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date30 Jul 2021vs20 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    165.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    110.90 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    331.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    277.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    256.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    352.30 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 6600 XT
    10600.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
    8873.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better