NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1468MHz vs 1180MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 460 Mobile 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +255%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 460 Mobile

2.115 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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Radeon RX 460 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1180 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

2560

Shading Units

896

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.88 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.08 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.115 TFLOPS

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.115 TFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

132.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Baffin

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

55W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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