Radeon RX Vega 64 vs GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1733MHz vs 1546MHz)
Lower TDP (180W vs 295W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX Vega 64
+42%
12660
GeForce GTX 1080
8873
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX Vega 64
7373
GeForce GTX 1080
+2%
7565
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX Vega 64
+5%
3619
GeForce GTX 1080
3446
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 64
31
GeForce GTX 1080
+3%
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 64
62
GeForce GTX 1080
62
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX Vega 64
92
GeForce GTX 1080
+7%
99
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 64
+9%
57
GeForce GTX 1080
52
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 64
95
GeForce GTX 1080
+2%
97
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX Vega 64
129
GeForce GTX 1080
128
GTA 5 2160p
Radeon RX Vega 64
56
GeForce GTX 1080
56
GTA 5 1440p
Radeon RX Vega 64
+44%
107
GeForce GTX 1080
74
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
May 2016
Vega
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1247 MHz
Base Clock
1607 MHz
1546 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
945 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5X
2048bit
Memory Bus
256bit
483.8GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
4096
Shading Units
2560
256
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
98.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
395.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
25.33 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
12.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
791.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
295W
TDP
180W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
GP104
Vega 10 XT
(215-0894200)
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
GCN 5.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
16 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
