Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date May 2013 Apr 2017
Generation Solar System GeForce 10
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz 1607 MHz
Boost Clock 900 MHz 1733 MHz
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1376 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 352.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 2560
TMUs 80 160
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
SM Count 20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 72.00 GTexel/s 277.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.304 TFLOPS 8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 144.0 GFLOPS 277.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 138.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Neptune GP104
GPU Variant Neptune XT(216-0847000) GP104-410-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 314 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 180W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU 450 W
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 6.1