AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1733MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +230%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce GTX 1080 +326%

7536

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP104

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP104-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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