Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2017 Oct 2013
Generation GeForce 10 Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1607 MHz 850 MHz
Boost Clock 1733 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Clock 1376 MHz 1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5X GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 352.3GB/s 288.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count 20
Shading Units 2560 2048
TMUs 160 128
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 110.9 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 277.3 GTexel/s 128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 138.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float) 8.873 TFLOPS 4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 277.3 GFLOPS 1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GP104 Tahiti
GPU Variant GP104-410-A1 Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 16 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.2 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 314 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 180W 250W
Suggested PSU 450 W 600 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 6.1
Shader Model 6.4 5.1