NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon VII

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1750MHz vs 1733MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +51%

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7534

Radeon VII +23%

9307

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

32

Radeon VII +37%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Radeon VII +32%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

99

Radeon VII +15%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Radeon VII +25%

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

97

Radeon VII +17%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

Radeon VII +19%

153

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

Radeon VII +17%

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +19%

74

Radeon VII

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +13%

154

Radeon VII

136

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon VII

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

2560

Shading Units

3840

160

TMUs

240

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Vega 20

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

7 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

295W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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