NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +54%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Vesuvius

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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