GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon Sky 500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
+264%
8873
Radeon Sky 500
2432
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Mar 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Radeon Sky
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
1280
160
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1