AMD Radeon R7 265 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

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AMD Radeon R7 265 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 87% (1733MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.3GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 265

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps +368%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265

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GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Apr 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1607 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1733 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1376 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

352.3GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

20

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.9 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.3 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

138.6 GFLOPS

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.873 TFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP104-410-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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