AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1733MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 +79%

8.873 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3685

GeForce GTX 1080 +104%

7534

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce GTX 1080 +166%

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce GTX 1080 +148%

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce GTX 1080 +147%

99

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

GeForce GTX 1080 +117%

74

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce GTX 1080 +57%

154

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 1080

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2016

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

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

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP104

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

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

120W

TDP

180W

300 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

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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