NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps vs AMD Radeon RX 560 896SP

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Apr 2017
Jul 2017
Generation
GeForce 10
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1607 MHz
1090 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1175 MHz
Memory Clock
1376 MHz
1750 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
352.3GB/s
112.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
896
TMUs
160
56
ROPs
64
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
14

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
18.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
65.80 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
2.106 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
2.106 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP104
Polaris 21
GPU Variant
GP104-410-A1
Polaris 21 XL
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
16 nm
14 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
3 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
123 mm²

Board Design

TDP
180W
45W
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
6.1
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.4