NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +877%

8.873 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

32bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

2560

Shading Units

384

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Lexa

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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