NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (1733MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +167%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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