AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock1733MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +54%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2016

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1607 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP104

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

180W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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