NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2017
Apr 2012
Generation
GeForce 10 Mobile
London
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1290 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
1280
TMUs
160
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
93.95 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
234.9 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
117.4 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
7.516 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
234.9 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GP104
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
N17E-G3-A1
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Pascal
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
16 nm
28 nm
Transistors
7.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
314 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
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