NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1733MHz vs 1206MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+79%
8.873 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470
4.94 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 10
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
926 MHz
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
16 nm
Process Size
14 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
