Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2013 Jun 2017
Generation Sea Islands GeForce 10 Mobile
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 950 MHz 1290 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz 1468 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1251 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 320.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32
Shading Units 2048 2560
TMUs 128 160
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 768 KB 2 MB
SM Count 20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 93.95 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 128.0 GTexel/s 234.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.096 TFLOPS 7.516 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1024 GFLOPS 234.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 117.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Malta GP104
GPU Variant Malta XT(215-0849026) N17E-G3-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 365 mm² 314 mm²
Board Design
TDP 375W 150W
Suggested PSU 750 W
Outputs 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 8-pin None
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