AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 352.3GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1733MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +18%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

Vega

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5X

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

3584

Shading Units

2560

224

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GP104

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GP104-410-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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