GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon HD 6290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2480 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
+8431%
8873
Radeon HD 6290
104
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Dec 2011
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
80
160
TMUs
8
64
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
19W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Cedar
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
Cedar LE
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
40 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0