NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages
Boost Clock1733MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
+54%
8.873 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 10
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1376 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
352.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
2304
160
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
250W
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
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GP104-410-A1
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
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
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
