NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 Clock has increased by 29% (1733MHz vs 1340MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +43%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

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

1257 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

352.3GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

2560

Shading Units

2304

160

TMUs

144

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

42.88 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GP104-410-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-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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