NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1468MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +389%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Saturn

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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