NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX 570

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX 570

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1733MHz vs 1244MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 570 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +74%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570

5.095 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080 +95%

7533

Radeon RX 570

3860

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +77%

32

Radeon RX 570

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +82%

62

Radeon RX 570

34

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +90%

99

Radeon RX 570

52

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +92%

52

Radeon RX 570

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +90%

97

Radeon RX 570

51

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +85%

128

Radeon RX 570

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +86%

56

Radeon RX 570

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +29%

74

Radeon RX 570

57

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +54%

154

Radeon RX 570

100

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon RX 570

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.81 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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