NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX 560DX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX 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 47% (1733MHz vs 1175MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +321%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1090 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

2560

Shading Units

896

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.80 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x 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

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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