AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1468MHz vs 1077MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +51%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2017

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/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

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP104

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-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

100W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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