NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM 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 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1733MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +52%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 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

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