AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 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 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1468MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +319%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jun 2017

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2560

56

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GP104

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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