AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Lower TDP (210W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1582MHz vs 1471MHz)

More VRAM (11GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 409.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +7%

11.34 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56

6873

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +43%

9872

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

30

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +36%

41

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

57

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +29%

74

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

87

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +25%

109

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

52

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +26%

66

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

93

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +23%

115

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

125

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +17%

147

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +67%

77

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56

91

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +9%

100

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +41%

156

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2017

Vega

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1481 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1582 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

11GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5X

2048bit

Memory Bus

352bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

484.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

28

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3584

224

TMUs

224

64

ROPs

88

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

0 MB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

139.2 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

354.4 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

177.2 GFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

354.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GP102

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GP102-350-K1-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

11.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

471 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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