NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2016
Nov 2012
Generation
GeForce 10
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1607 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
192.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
20
-
Shading Units
2560
1536
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
24

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
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
185W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-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

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
7,565
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
3,446
-
Battlefield 5 1080p
128
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
32
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
62
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
99
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Battlefield 5 2160p
52
-
Battlefield 5 1440p
97
-
GTA 5 2160p
56
-
GTA 5 1440p
74
-
GTA 5 1080p
154
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