NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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's Advantages

Boost Clock 1733MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +54%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

May 2016

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

1607MHz

Base Clock

-

1733MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1750MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0 GB/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)

2MB

L2 Cache

2MB

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

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

5,700 million

314mm²

Die Size

232mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450W

Suggested PSU

600W

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 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

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