NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 18% (1733MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +18%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +9%

7536

Radeon RX Vega 56

6878

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +6%

32

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +8%

62

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +13%

99

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +4%

97

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +2%

128

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +21%

56

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

Radeon RX Vega 56 +22%

91

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +40%

154

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

3584

160

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

210W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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