NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 122% (1733MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +1678%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 OEM

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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Radeon R7 240 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Oland

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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