AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

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AMD Radeon R9 285X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (528.4GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB +160%

10.69 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 12 GB

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1557 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

528.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

25

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

3200

128

TMUs

200

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.6 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

334.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

167.0 GFLOPS

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.69 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

334.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GP102

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

5 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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