NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 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 12% (1733MHz vs 1546MHz)

Lower TDP (180W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.3GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 64 +42%

12.66 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1080

7533

Radeon RX Vega 64

7521

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080 +3%

32

Radeon RX Vega 64

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

62

Radeon RX Vega 64

62

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080 +7%

99

Radeon RX Vega 64

92

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

52

Radeon RX Vega 64 +9%

57

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080 +2%

97

Radeon RX Vega 64

95

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1080

128

Radeon RX Vega 64

129

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1080

56

Radeon RX Vega 64

56

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1080

74

Radeon RX Vega 64 +44%

107

GeForce GTX 1080

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Radeon RX Vega 64

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1247 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1546 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

2560

Shading Units

4096

160

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.94 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

395.8 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

25.33 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.66 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

791.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Vega 10

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

295W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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