NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+54%
8.873 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
2816
160
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Vesuvius
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
