NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1582MHz vs 1545MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +59%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +107%

9872

Radeon RX 590

4760

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +70%

41

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +60%

74

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +53%

109

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +69%

66

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +55%

115

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +45%

147

Radeon RX 590

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +83%

77

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +49%

100

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +41%

156

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3584

Shading Units

2304

224

TMUs

144

88

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Polaris 30

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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