NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1733MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +105%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

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

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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