GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon VII
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Lower TDP (180W vs 295W)
Radeon VII 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1750MHz vs 1733MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
8873
Radeon VII
+51%
13440
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1080
7565
Radeon VII
+17%
8923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1080
3446
Radeon VII
+26%
4374
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
32
Radeon VII
+37%
44
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
62
Radeon VII
+32%
82
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
99
Radeon VII
+15%
114
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
52
Radeon VII
+25%
65
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
97
Radeon VII
+17%
114
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
128
Radeon VII
+19%
153
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1080
56
Radeon VII
+17%
66
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1080
+19%
74
Radeon VII
62
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1080
+13%
154
Radeon VII
136
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Feb 2019
GeForce 10
Generation
Vega II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
1400 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
1750 MHz
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
HBM2
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
1020GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
60
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
3840
160
TMUs
240
64
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
112.0 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
420.0 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.88 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.44 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.360 TFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
295W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Vega 20
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 20 XT
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
7 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
