NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 182.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +123%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X

3.973 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +147%

7534

Radeon R9 380X

3050

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1425 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

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

31.04 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Antigua

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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